My experience with masking | Autistic masking in females

Today's video is about my experience with masking as an autistic female. Masking is one of the reasons why I wasn't diagnosed with autism earlier and only discovered that I'm autistic a year ago. What's your experience with masking? Feel free to share in the comments! Thanks for watching!


TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:22 What even is masking?
1:34 What masking feels like?
2:35 Have I always masked?
3:31 Ways of masking
4:26 Imitating & exaggerating facial expressions
6:39 Monitoring body language
7:58 Suppressing emotions & reactions
8:45 Preparing for conversations
10:03 Outro


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Hi and welcome! I’m Angelina. I’m a 24 year old self-diagnosed autistic. I realized that I’m on the spectrum a year ago and I’m currently in the process of seeking a formal diagnosis and finding my place in the world.

This is a space for me to share and categorize my thoughts and experiences as an autistic adult. I’m still in the process of understanding my life from an autistic perspective and learning to be myself. By sharing my experiences I wish to help those dealing with similar things as me feel less alone, as well as raise awareness and acceptance of autism, specifically females on the spectrum.

Let’s navigate life together!