Reasons For Disliking Neurodivergent Masking:
Reasons for disliking neurodivergent masking:
- Masking requires a lot of cognitive effort, which is draining and can lead to Autistic burnout and exhaustion and burnout symptoms for ADHD people
- Autistic and ADHD people who mask more show more signs of anxiety and depression, and the strategy may even been linked to an increase in suicidal behaviours in autism
- Masking doesn't masking change the judgements that non-autistic peers made towards autistic people’s social behaviours
- Masking makes you feel disconnected from your true sense of identity
- Masking may delay the identification of one's autism and ADHD and delayed ADHD diagnosis has been linked to, among others, substance abuse
- Masking ADHD can lead to perfectionism and lowered self-esteem and isolation and feelings of loneliness
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Some Isafrin fanfic writers are really funny!! But idk, when they primarily use they/them pronouns for Siffrin, its not as funny, they lose all the hehe’s :(
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the neurodivergent experience:
20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333
80% of the time: this mind is a prison
bad youtube clickbait thumbnail that reads "I think I just had a therapy session with a DEMON???"
I miiiiiss theeeeem
Just some Soos and Melody fluff
Wicked + text posts
[now i'm going to say something that will upset you: i know what you look like. i know your feet and hands and your skin. i know your head and your hair and your heart. you shouldn't bite your nails.]
every now and then i think about i'm thinking of ending things by iain reid
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