The 4 Types of Autistic Masking

when I was reacting to the fake disorder cringe subreddit for the video that I posted on Sunday I stumbled across this terrible post I didn't respond to it in that video maybe at sometime in the future I can do because the comments are like an interesting ride the post was titled how these people sound and then it has a picture of someone in a wheelchair it says so I'm a paraplegic I can't move my lower body and then the person standing up says oh my God me too I'm just so good at masking it's barely even noticeable anymore they don't understand autistic masking and they're basically saying like if you were autistic there's no way you would be able to cover that up now obviously this image is ridiculous I don't know a lot about it but I'm pretty sure people take issue to being called a paraplegic but if I'm honest when I look at this post I kind of had some similar thoughts to this when I was first considering the fact that I might be autistic like I'm autistic but then I'm going out into the world and pretending I'm not autistic every day it's like a really difficult concept to get your head around it's really abstract doesn't mean it doesn't exist though it is a very real thing and it's even mentioned in the dsm5 for autism symptoms must be present in the early developmental period in order for you to get an Autism diagnosis because it's a neurodevelopmental condition but may not become fully manifest until social demands exceed limited capacities or may be masked by learned strategies in later life of course it makes sense that if people have the ability to they going to stop doing things that end in them being perceived negatively and they're going to do more of the things that win them approval of the people around them that's just a normal human response and so while people who are not Autistic or otherwise neurode Divergent they may mask as well an autistic person who is more different than the average person who is more of a minority in terms of how their mind works me need to put more effort into this mask in order to match