Have you tried inventing and inhabiting a complex character who doesn’t have your problem?
Anne-Lorraine (SF till June 10th)x.comHave you tried inventing and inhabiting a complex character who doesn’t have your problem?
When an Autistic person is not given resources or access to self-knowledge, and when they’re told their stigmatized traits are just signs that they’re a disruptive, overly sensitive, or annoying kid, they have no choice but to develop a neurotypical façade. Maintaining that neurotypical mask feels deeply inauthentic and it’s extremely exhausting to
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Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
In the area of thought, there is the intellectual who discusses his or her personal problems as though they belong to someone else. In a state of total dissociation, this individual does not experience the emotional meaning of anything he or she says or hears; such an individual prefers to talk about psychology in general rather than his or her ago
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