Masking - Autism Explained

"Just act like everyone else to fit in" is common advice, and it sounds alright on paper. But it's some of the worst advice you could possibly give. Nevertheless, many autistics do it anyways. Why, and what consequences does it have?

📼 Autistic Girls Are We Gender Stereotyping Autism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ohpP5q3m0

📼 Autism in girls - I was wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAhQJ08bzgs

📰 Camouflaging in Autism
https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00129

📚 Sex/Gender Differences in Camouflaging in Children and Adolescents with Autism
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-020-04615-z

📚 The Female Autism Phenotype and Camouflaging: a Narrative Review
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40489-020-00197-9

📚 Brief Report: Sex/Gender Differences in Symptomology and Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-019-03998-y

📚 “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-017-3166-5

📚 Social camouflaging in autism: Is it time to lose the mask?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361319878559

📚 Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-019-04323-3

📚 Are autistic traits associated with suicidality? A test of the interpersonal‐psychological theory of suicide in a non‐clinical young adult sample
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.1828

📚 Looking good but feeling bad: “Camouflaging” behaviors and mental health in women with autistic traits
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361320912147