30 Signs You're Masking Autism

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  @Auticate · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Which of these do YOU do? And what would you add to the list? Tell us below - we love learning so much from everyone here ❤<br><br>Here&apos;s Part 2: 30 Ways to Unmask Your Autism: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIj_8Xs50WA">https://youtu.be/qIj_8Xs50WA</a>

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  @Sassy-qh5nh · 1 year ago

  Who else tuned out on a thought tangent and realized 3 items later that they had stopped listening and had to rewind? &nbsp;Lol.

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  @sam-psonsmith9951 · 11 months ago (edited)

  One of the worst thing for me, was always that i would get lost in my head thinking about completely random crap, only to realize that i have no idea what my boss just said, but asking would be crazy, so i go back to my work station with no clue what i was asked to do. Then i spend hours trying to figure it out without asking.

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  @kinsleyizeepy · 9 months ago

  “I’m sorry I didn’t quite get what u said” is a life saver for someone that has processing issues <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Na0e2GeI0&amp;t=275">4:35</a>

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  @camilabacigalupo9043 · 1 year ago

  &quot;anyone else is pissed off by the lack of symmetry of this place?&quot; 🤣🤣 I felt so identified with this

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  @VarmintLP · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Na0e2GeI0&amp;t=264">4:24</a> you forgot one thing. &quot;Now I look like I&apos;m thinking&quot; should be followed up by &quot;ehm what am I thinking about while pretending to think?&quot;

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  @KamaraiYT · 8 months ago

  Watched some of this out of curiosity and I noticed there are a sizeable number of things that are just things neurotypical people might do, just you might be more introverted or polite for a large majority of the lower ones. But a huge thing I think is your sort of reaction to those situations AND how often they happen.<br><br>Like &quot;default phrases&quot;, prepared questions, &quot;customer service voice&quot;, etc. Lots of people do these things, especially in a work environment where you&apos;re kind of forced to adhere to a sort of etiquette. Similarly &quot;avoiding annoying phone calls&quot;, &quot;being polite about eating food you don&apos;t like&quot; are also just avoiding things you find annoying and/or being polite. Especially if it&apos;s from someone you don&apos;t like that much or don&apos;t know very well. I think it&apos;s pretty easy for almost everyone to check a bunch of boxes on the situations in this video autistic or not.<br><br>But a huge thing that I think really has to be stated loud and clear - it&apos;s the REASONS why you do those things. Not necessarily that you do these 30 things.<br><br>Like I do many things because as mentioned, it&apos;s kind of necessary to keep my job AND good, helpful etiquette towards customers/management has given me a good reputation. It&apos;s not entirely a mask as I do like helping but I&apos;d say I play it up a little for my own benefit. But if a customer really annoys me once I&apos;m off the phone I can easily turn to my coworkers and complain. Also as a very introverted person I mostly let other people do the talking and am not particularly good at improv in TTRPGs for example, but I can still easily talk with anyone about a variety of subjects. But these sorts of things are things that happen every so often in certain situations.<br><br>But I think a key take away I get from the way he&apos;s talking about this is that you do this ALL the time, with pretty much everyone. Or you&apos;re avoiding certain things not just because they&apos;re midly annoying/slightly uncomfortable and you prefer to do something else, but because it&apos;s utterly unbearable to do so. Like wearing comfier clothes, avoiding small talk or social situations - I do all of those and lots of people do. But if I have to do the thing the autistic person is avoiding it&apos;s kind of whatever, my day might kind of suck and I move on. NBD. I probably don&apos;t even think about it that much, or maybe it ends up being a good thing if I find common ground with a person there or something. Probably not the case if you&apos;re actually autistic I would imagine.

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  @KatieBrown-l7z · 1 year ago

  Holy moly, yes! People love talking about themselves so much that I can “know” a person for years without them ever knowing me in return. They’ll tell me their life story but never ask me a single personal question. And that’s just fine by me.

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  @UltimateJager · 1 year ago (edited)

  Let&apos;s not forget the urticating feeling of being at an event at your work place and the organizer says: &quot;we prepared a fun game to make us all get to know each other!&quot;

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  @Zonai7184 · 2 months ago

  I&apos;m watching this video at 35 years old thinking &quot;isn&apos;t this just how everybody is?&quot; Hooo boy.

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  @SpiritofRavens · 1 year ago

  From &quot;I&apos;m normal, but a bit weird&quot; to &quot;it looks as if I&apos;m high sensitive&quot; to &quot;probably adhd but definitely not autistic&quot; to &quot;damn, I think I do might have autistic traits, but I don&apos;t think I&apos;m masking much, I mostly avoid situations&quot; to watching this video and &quot;f*<b>*</b> <br>Thank you for your work. It helps me to discover myself

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  @arthas5552 · 1 year ago

  I literally do every single one of these. What a life

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