I had to describe my AuDHD child's school masking to a psychologist yesterday and I came up with a pretty efficient analogy. At school she is beautiful origami. Everybody loves to look at the origami, and marvel at how pleasant it is, but nobody thinks about the complicated...1/4
processes it took for her to fold that way. They just like to look at the origami and feel pleased with themselves that they're keeping the origami in one piece all day every day. When she gets home, when she's with me, she knows I can help her unfold. I can open up all the...2/4
@egstirling Thank you. What a gentle way to explain masking. May I use it?
@egstirling In a way though, every human being is like this... We all are scarred and cracked like the Leonard Cohen song says... We all have to learn how to survive in the world...
@egstirling Have you watched Chris Packham's fantastic programme "Inside Our Autistic Minds"? 2nd episode next Tues evening BBC2, 1st episode on catch up. If not, you should xx