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@elight @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I'm not officially diagnosed, but on realizing I'm in my adult years, it's like now all the truths of what I really face are more prominent, I can actually recognize sensory overload but can't always find my way to fixing it, etc. The masks we put up tend, I think, to mask the truth even from ourselves, then when the truth comes clear, it's another overwhelm all in itself sometimes, because we don't have the buffer we once had.

Tarren (They/Them)
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@punishmenthurts @elight @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I was kinda pressured into being like them. Because I was a blind kid, heaven forbid I should be anything different.

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
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@Tarrenvane 😯😳Fitting in, while sighted, is hard enough. Did you have support at home? @punishmenthurts @elight @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

Tarren (They/Them)
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@Tooden @punishmenthurts @elight @pathfinder @actuallyautistic Only for my needs as a blind person. No one ever thought that maybe the things they were calling "blindisms" and constantly saying "You don't want people to think you're autistic?" about might *actually* be *gasp* autism. I was supposed to just be normal.

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
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@Tarrenvane Well, obviously you can't have more than one thing wrong with you *gasp* /s
(They couldn't be with you all the time, so they did what they thought was right to keep you safe). My parents did much the same for me and my sibs, and I did what I could for my boys, without knowing about my - or their - autism. @punishmenthurts @elight @pathfinder @actuallyautistic

Kevin Davy
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@Tarrenvane @Tooden @punishmenthurts @elight @actuallyautistic
So many of us thought we should, just be normal. Even though we knew that it never really cut it, despite everything thing else.
Finally realising the truth finally frees us. But, of course, being able to get others to see that, is a whole different story.

Evan Light
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@Tarrenvane @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I understand this to be called "sensory unmasking" by those better informed than I.