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Neurodivergent 3w
Why do i feel like im slowly coming out as autistic? Like im slowly masking less and testing the waters with how my family feels about it
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Anonymous 3w

I wondered the same thing, and the answer was that I really was slowly coming out as autistic. Masking can be conscious or unconscious. Mine was unconscious, and it was confusing to discover. It felt like a thing happening to me rather than something I was doing intentionally.

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Anonymous 3w

Same, after I knew that one of my classmates is actually autistic and is doing research on autism I immediately realized I started masking less when around her

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Anonymous 3w

I was lit talking about this with my therapist the other day

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Anonymous 3w

Well, how they treated you in early childhood before you learned to mask/how fast you learned to mask is gonna be a pretty good indicator of how they feel abt it

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Anonymous 3w

No yeah. I often worried that I wasn’t actually autistic but after I started taking anxiety meds I started unmasking without even realizing

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Anonymous 3w

People often regress around those closest to them after being diagnosed because they finally feel validated and safe enough to unmask and basically ‘show the full tism’ to the people they love

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3w

i think before i masked, i think a lot of my traits were easily writeoffable as my age. very picky eating, various sensory issues, hyper-fixations/ not wanting to talk about anything not of particular interest to me, and other general social deficiencies just got me labeled difficult, bratty and shy. eventually i stopped letting those things turn into big events and just had a general teenage angst, then i started fully masking and got burntout as fuck, hibernated, beat depression, and im

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

finally at that coming out of hibernation phase and am slowly taking weakening the mask. unfortunately that’s showing in the “being triggered by things” aspects first, i gotta get comfortable with letting myself just talk like myself instead of double checking myself mentally with every word i say

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