JFL I [33F] learned I might have been masking autism and I'm having an identity crisis. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you cope?

[Benteveo]

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What do you think about the term "masking"?

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

Actual fucking mental retardation. "I'm so quirky".

Meanwhile most of us have thought about sodium nitrite at least once.

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

What do you think about the term "masking"?

It's bullshit.

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

She has a stable job, a relationship, and proper social life — and yet she wants to label herself with all sorts of meaningless disorders, merely so she can consider herself quirky and different. Even if she actually is autistic, it only goes to show how simple life is for the women who are "autistic", as opposed to their male counterparts who are tying the noose as I write this reply.

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

It's bullshit.

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

She has a stable job, a relationship, and proper social life — and yet she wants to label herself with all sorts of meaningless disorders, merely so she can consider herself quirky and different. Even if she actually is autistic, it only goes to show how simple life is for the women who are "autistic", as opposed to their male counterparts who are tying the noose as I write this reply.

I hate being an autist.

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

I hate being an autist.

It's hell.

 

[goop]

She has a stable job, a relationship, and proper social life — and yet she wants to label herself with all sorts of meaningless disorders, merely so she can consider herself quirky and different. Even if she actually is autistic, it only goes to show how simple life is for the women who are "autistic", as opposed to their male counterparts who are tying the noose as I write this reply.

One chromosome away from being a jobless suicidal social pariah.

 

[SupremeSaint]

She has a stable job, a relationship, and proper social life — and yet she wants to label herself with all sorts of meaningless disorders, merely so she can consider herself quirky and different. Even if she actually is autistic, it only goes to show how simple life is for the women who are "autistic", as opposed to their male counterparts who are tying the noose as I write this reply.

Life mogs us

 

[The Judge]

Unless you were diagnosed as a child, you are not autistic.

 

[Junkosbiggestdicker]

common disorder-collecting foid, bipolar, BPD and OCD are all disorders commonly romanticized by media along with autism, she can go fuck herself