Chapter 19 Autistic Fawning - what is it and why do we do it?

Chapter 19 recapping my unexpected Autism and ADHD year: this week I'm talking about autistic fawning - what it is and why some of us do it.

Drawing the link between a) trauma and stress responses, b) fawning and c) autistic masking and camouflaging, I'll consider fawning as an attempt to appease others by avoiding conflict or discord, and how adopting this as a sustained behavioural model can lead to exhaustion and burnout for people on the autism spectrum by trying to 'fit themselves in' to a neurotypical world that that doesn't work for them.

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Some useful links:
AQ Autism Self-Test:
I'm going to keep posting the link to the AQ Self Test for autism every Sunday in case this is the first video in the series people come across. Take the self test (remember it's JUST a self-test) and see how you score. You may have been on the autism spectrum all along and just had no idea, like I was:
https://psychology-tools.com/test/aut...

ADHD Self-Test:
(with all the same caveats as above) an ADHD self-test. ADHD is even MORE common than autism (and many of us will have both); the vast majority of ADHDers just struggle through from childhood through adulthood having no idea that they even HAVE ADHD, let alone working out strategies to cope and deal with it all better to be happier and less frustrated with ourselves and others.
https://psychology-tools.com/test/adu...