Autistic masking: a dangerous survival mechanism
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Leah Reinardy |
TEDxHopeCollege
• January 2022
This talk contains discussion of suicide and mental health and contains a statistic on sexual assault.
We all filter ourselves depending on our social context, but Autistic individuals rarely have the privilege to turn that filter off. In this talk Leah Reinardy, Autistic advocate and educator, defines the concept of Autistic masking, why Autistic individuals learn to mask, the deadly consequences that come with that mask, and the struggles of learning to take that mask off.