@actuallyautistic Is anyone else currently on an unmasking mission? This topic is SO important to me, and I don't have anyone to talk about it with. I genuinely feel like I can't move forward with my life until I've become comfortable in my own body, without masking.
But my masking is such that I start doing it if anyone is within 20 meters of me. It's chronic masking fatigue. It has to change.
I had only vague suspicions that autism might be part of me when I started doing it a decade ago - I didn't call it unmasking because I didn't know what masking was.
I stopped scolding myself at home when I did weird or childish things. I gave myself permission to play with my dogs any way I and they wanted. I gave myself permission to make strange noises back to my parrot. My dogs love it, my parrot loves it, and I love it, because home is where I can be me.
