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“She's functioning - don't make that face, it's a perfectly appropriate medical term - she's functioning and I thought people might like to see that. She has it mild, Keedie. Like you."
"It's mild to you!" Keedie shouts and I flinch, not used to hearing her raise her voice. "It's mild to you and every other heartless soul in this village, Nina, it's not mild to me. It's not mild to Addie! It's mild to you because we make it so, at great personal cost!”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we can't ever be fully loved.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“It's better to be open about who you really are, what you're really like, and be disliked by a few than it is to hide who you are and be tolerated by many.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“It's not like, as the term "masking" seems to evoke, there's a superficial layer of actions and appearances that I can remove and instantly improve my life. I don't have a mask I can remove; I have a multiheaded, deeply embedded parasite. It's probably killing me, but it's also kept me alive, and I don't know how much I can remove and still survive. I'm not completely sure where it ends and I begin at this point.”
― Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

“The thing is, masking isn't always good. It takes a lot of effort and energy to hide a big part of yourself, even if you're not doing it intentionally. Masking is a bit like going into survival mode. You do it because you have to, rather than because you want to; and while everyone has the ability to mask to some degree, for autistic people, we can spend most of our lives doing it without even realizing.”
― Lucy Powrie, Bookishly Ever After

“Masking also obscures the fact that the world is massively inaccessible to us. If allistics (non-Autistics) never hear our needs voiced, and never see our struggle, they have no reason to adapt to include us. We must demand the treatment we deserve, and cease living to placate those who have overlooked us.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“I put on the mask and robe, thinking that it would help me fit in. But soon the plaster crumbled and the fabric frayed, showing my true skin.”
― Vanessa Ooms, Do It For You: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Find Peace

“If you release the idea of the essential self, throw it naked into the surf and let the sea carry it away, then everything changes. Without it, masks take on a new expanse of possibility. They can conceal, yes, but as the magician says, they can also clarify what is true - in precisely the same way a story can tell you something better than stark facts ever could.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“After eight hours of performing a one-woman play about a mentally-engaged, emotionally functional human, whe had nothing left in her.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“I wish people could understand that masking is so much more than biting your tongue and forcing yourself to be as average as possible. It's about supressing basic physiological needs. It's about hiding the parts of yourself that come naturally, so they don't seem unnatural to others. It's physical. It's insidious.”
― Elle McNicoll, Keedie

“E' un meccanismo di sopravvivenza che chi 猫 come me conosce anche troppo bene: quando si comincia a comprendere che la maggior parte dei problemi e degli ostacoli percepiti come insormontabili sono il risultato di una dissonanza tra s茅 e il resto del mondo, nella maggior parte dei casi si comincia a imitare gli altri, a conformarsi.
Nell'autismo questo tentativo frequente di conformit脿 al gruppo di appartenenza viene definito masking, indossare una maschera che copre interamente il volto. Col tempo ne crei una per il lavoro, un'altra per le uscite con gli amici, una per le relazioni affettive. Osservi quello che fanno gli altri, cerchi di imitarne i comportamenti, quel modo di ridere a battute che a te sembrano insignificanti, oppure l'andatura, la prosodia. Ma il discorso vale anche se da adolescente scopri che invece delle ragazze ti piacciono i compagni di scuola, quegli stessi ragazzi che invece manifestano la loro eterosessualit脿 con esuberanza spesso facendo in tua presenza commenti terribili contro chiunque abbia un orientamento differente dal loro.
Indossi la maschera se percepisci il tuo genere diverso da quel lo che la societ脿 si aspetta tu debba sentire, oppure se non se felice della vita che hai. Quando sei con gli altri, sei gli altri.
Poi torni nella solitudine della tua camera e a volte quella maschera si 猫 talmente appiccicata sul tuo volto che non viene via del tutto; col tempo nemmeno ricordi pi霉 chi sei, cosa ti faceva emozionare.”
― Fabrizio Acanfora, In altre parole. Dizionario minimo di 诲颈惫别谤蝉颈迟脿

“Sometimes masking can feel like you're dragging a chain across the ground. Being with people who are like me feels like someone unlocking the restraints.”
― Elle McNicoll, Keedie

“I love music. It sets everything in me alive. Every hair stands out on end. I feel like there's a box in my heart, a secret, hidden part of myself. I keep so many things locked inside that box so that no one else will ever see. And when I listen to music, alone in my room with my giant headphones on, the box flies open and all of the colours spill out and somehow merge with the music. I love the feeling. All of my masking and my reservations leave and the hidden parts of my soul come out.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It is a gray day only because we have assumed the absence of color verses the masking of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think most people wish they could be more of who they are and still feel accepted. But it's understandably hard if, growing up, you were ignored or shamed for being yourself & rewarded when you conformed.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“I鈥檝e learned over the years that a smile is a much more effective mask than a non-expression. Every non-expression is ultimately nothing but a blank canvas inviting unwanted and revealing expressions to flash into momentary visibility. But if you鈥檙e wearing a smile, those more revealing expressions have nowhere to go.”
― Sylvia Mercedes, Entranced

“In these meetings Palandine was teaching me how to use my eyes and ears in a manner that complemented the teachings of Calyx and Mila.

鈥淎nd you have to use that wonderful smile of yours more often, Elim.鈥�

鈥淲hat鈥檚 that got to do with listening?鈥�

That was the subject, and Palandine had typically made a jump in logic I couldn鈥檛 follow. She also forgot that I was a Cardassian male and smiling was not one of our strong features.”
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“In these meetings Palandine was teaching me how to use my eyes and ears in a manner that complemented the teachings of Calyx and Mila.

鈥淎nd you have to use that wonderful smile of yours more often, Elim.鈥�

鈥淲hat鈥檚 that got to do with listening?鈥�

That was the subject, and Palandine had typically made a jump in logic I couldn鈥檛 follow. She also forgot that I was a Cardassian male and smiling was not one of our strong features.”
― Andrew J. Robinson, A Stitch in Time

“Choosing your own mask was the first voluntary human act. And solitary鈥� your head could sometimes hold itself high like the head of someone who has overcome an obstacle: the person was.”
― Clarice Lispector

“[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening.”
― Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

“Just because brokerages disclose a convoluted
web of profiteering doesn鈥檛 mean it鈥檚 appropriate. It just means they are hiding these questionable practices in plain sight with a mountain of compliance language that no one will ever read.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“A man stares at himself in the mirror and peels away all the layers. But the person he sees doesn't feels like someone he knows. He feels like he is looking at a total stranger.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I realize that's how it sometimes feels to be me.
As if I have to hide who I am, all of the time.
As if I have to pretend to be like everyone else, just so people will love me.
As if I'm constantly being asked to share, to reveal myself, to open up, and when I do--when I finally show people who I truly am--it's not what anyone wanted and they explode right in front of me.
I am so fucking done with making myself smaller.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn't even understand that she has been camouflaging herself until she gets her diagnosis. Before that, she thinks her struggle is everyone else's, too. At least, that's what it was like for me.”
― Clara Tornvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor p氓 spektrat

“You mistake tragedy for horror because no one likes true sadness.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The way she worked a room fascinated me. In adapting to autism, she had learned to interact with others by plan, but all the while making it look as if it were the most spontaneous and natural thing in the world.”
― Tom Equels, The Horseman's Tale

“What was the point when life was a constant circle of forcing a broken mask onto yourself to survive, only to rip it off at the end of the day to reveal a girl who was just as broken? I had no energy left to be the me I once was--and should still have been. Simply living was a chore.”
― Chlo茅 Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After