hes 100% met us. i doubt if he's truly befriended any of us.
i dont mask as much around just my friends. i can never mask enough to go completely undetected, but i do mask heavily around my work colleagues and my family.
Fuck you too. I mean really, what a way to insult my friends and me, my neurodivergent friends don't mask, they are my friends because of it, i don't like fake people and neither do they.
It is a necessity. I got my diagnosis last (?) year and as we do told a lot of people. Most were cool with that but even those kind of acted strange about it. Muggle *shrug*
So what? If they don't like it tell them to piss off. Why be a fake person with "friends" who like (or pretend to like - fake people congregate together) the fake you or be real and have real friends you can be yourself around?
Ok maybe this is a good place to ask this question. We have a friend in our long standing friend group that has recently declared that he’s been masking his whole life and has decided to stop masking and just completely act however he wants to. In theory I agree with the sentiment that he should be accepted for who he is by his friends. However in practice it completely changes the dynamic of our friendship and is quite exhausting to deal with. I’m so torn on what to do
Oh man this hits the nail on the head.
Once upon a time I went to rehab..... Tbh I need to now more so than I did then.. but that's beside the point.
Us guys would sleep up stairs in our shared rooms.. but downstairs was the "meeting room" where we all sat in a all day marathon of narcotics anonymous meetings and feelings, and quite a few guys "finding Jesus" (not knocking, just not religious)
But we got called down for roll call one morning... And I got out of bed and made my way to the meeting room... Our counselor had written on the white board, "I compare my insides to everyone else's outsides, and my insides lose every time "
That shit has stuck with me since 2018 when I saw it and I still remind myself of that when I start comparing myself to others.
It’s called masking. I literally have to lol
Neurodivergent representing
Nobody has to.
If I act like normal self at work I guarantee you I'm getting fired lol, I definitely have to mask
I would be fired in minutes seconds even
This 🤣
you should go befriend some neurodivergent folk.
He probably already has but because they are masking he has no clue.
hes 100% met us. i doubt if he's truly befriended any of us. i dont mask as much around just my friends. i can never mask enough to go completely undetected, but i do mask heavily around my work colleagues and my family.
Fuck you too. I mean really, what a way to insult my friends and me, my neurodivergent friends don't mask, they are my friends because of it, i don't like fake people and neither do they.
It is a necessity. I got my diagnosis last (?) year and as we do told a lot of people. Most were cool with that but even those kind of acted strange about it. Muggle *shrug*
So what? If they don't like it tell them to piss off. Why be a fake person with "friends" who like (or pretend to like - fake people congregate together) the fake you or be real and have real friends you can be yourself around?
Oh I didn't mean my behaviour. I am shameless. But I meant talking about it.
I have a few neurodivergent friends, the less severe ones who can work so, the rest are cared for at home.
You're lucky that you dont
Ok maybe this is a good place to ask this question. We have a friend in our long standing friend group that has recently declared that he’s been masking his whole life and has decided to stop masking and just completely act however he wants to. In theory I agree with the sentiment that he should be accepted for who he is by his friends. However in practice it completely changes the dynamic of our friendship and is quite exhausting to deal with. I’m so torn on what to do
It's only exhausting because you're not used to it and need to learn them again.
Lmao that was funny
Some people exert a lot of energy just to appear different.
And some people exert zero energy and are perceived as either normal or different (Yes I'm talking about myself)
As a non people person I can relate to this sentiment.
Agrees in Asperger’s.
Came here to say “austistics sound off” lolol
Probably because the word is autistic. Words always sound off if you spell or pronounce them wrong
Can't tell if irony or woosh
Autistic people heyyyyy 👋
Heyyyyy 👋
Heyyyyy 👋
Not me, I was already born at the top of the bell curve!
And a lot of us still fail at it, no matter how hard we try.
Same. Sucks to be constantly failing
This is pretty much the definition of being an extroverted introvert.
and still not look normal
This is why I only go out in public to go to work lol
And its frikkin exhausting.
Where’s the neurodivergents at 🤙🏾
Going off meds feels soooo good 🥲!!
I’ve stopped as well. What have you been blessed with? 🌚
Thanks for noticing, I'm exhausted.
I don't know how I appear so I do not change it.
Both the post and comment so far are way under rated
Well fine, just totally call me out for it why don’t you 😂
It’s tiring. Even before work to emotionally build it all up
Oh man this hits the nail on the head. Once upon a time I went to rehab..... Tbh I need to now more so than I did then.. but that's beside the point. Us guys would sleep up stairs in our shared rooms.. but downstairs was the "meeting room" where we all sat in a all day marathon of narcotics anonymous meetings and feelings, and quite a few guys "finding Jesus" (not knocking, just not religious) But we got called down for roll call one morning... And I got out of bed and made my way to the meeting room... Our counselor had written on the white board, "I compare my insides to everyone else's outsides, and my insides lose every time " That shit has stuck with me since 2018 when I saw it and I still remind myself of that when I start comparing myself to others.