Probably the biggest part of rewriting my label came from the need to unmask. But that raised an even bigger question: Where does my mask come from, and when do I wear it? The first part is fairly easy to answer, but painful to pinpoint. My dad doesn’t believe in being neurodivergent, so I learned…
What even is unmasking? You’ve might’ve seen a lot of neurodivergent people online talk about unmasking. Maybe you’ve felt the urge too. If so. We’re alike in that way. The honest truth? I don’t fully know what I’m unmasking. What’s learned behaviour to fit in? What’s ADHD or ASD? And what’s just… me? It’s really…
I struggled a lot with my label when I was younger. Granted, people didn’t really know a lot about autism at the time. On top of that I had pdd-nos. Which literally means, Not Otherwise Specified. Not really Asperger, not fully autistic, just sort of on the spectrum. My parents didn’t know anything about autism….
