I’m still learning to drop my mask. It’s much harder than I thought it would be. Slowly, but surely I’m doing so though. Is an actual blessing to be ourselves when we can finally get there. Still, the grieving of a life lost weighs heavily
2026-07-11 23:31:54
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Sana :
Me and I never masked.
2026-07-10 21:37:33
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user1920747947935 :
Yeah I don’t even know who I am since my diagnosis 🤣🤦♀️🥰
2026-06-27 09:34:08
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discerning gentleman :
Your voice is super smooth. Not a trace of grating and you look great.
2026-06-27 18:49:11
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Pat Smith :
I don't understand what ive been masking! i only got diagnosed in April and im 48. I have always been different with speaking out and being blunt!! im quite sure thats not masking anything and i aint gonna stop doing it either. how wud i know what im doing to mask anything??
2026-06-29 00:47:19
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Kit 🇨🇦 :
I was essentially a different person for each person I interacted with. It’s a hard habit to break
2026-07-06 06:17:46
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mikhail5205 :
My fellow autistic sister. I masked for well over 30 years. I didn’t even realise I was masking until recent
2026-06-28 11:57:24
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Chris 🇨🇦 :
I am feeling set on my ways. it's hard to break out. I often think I'm not certain who I am.
2026-06-28 15:42:28
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IsekaiMePls🌎 :
thank you for posting
2026-06-29 01:26:17
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Thedgie 🐬✨ :
67
2026-06-27 14:32:04
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BazzaMacKenzie :
I REALLY didn't mask, yet I would say the same – that people I knew do not really know me – because it is their behaviour that makes you act a certain way. They create the environment around you & then judge your response to it. The feedback loop is intense.
2026-06-27 12:50:01
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Autism with Sabby ☀️ :
It feels like you’re an imposter 😭
2026-06-29 09:14:41
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posthumanidol :
im still the same person but just weirder. and grieving a life i never lived. (i masked all my life but it wasn’t a performance. it was just “don’t let anyone see the real you” aka shut up - reduce visibility at all costs. live in survival.) my mask never let anyone see who i always was. so i was masking but im lucky to have always known who i was in private. no one from the old days know who i am, and never have - not because i was performing for them (cause i wasn’t.) but because my mask meant survivial through complete invisibility and not speaking a word to anyone. (which also backfired cause “quiet kids” become targets.) i relate to masking, i know i mask but it’s different from how alot of other ppl experience masking. 🩷 shutting up and reducing space was my only way to survive. unmasking also requires confidence. even bringing headphones in public would make feel like “too much” for other ppl. even though wearing headphones in public is everywhere. 😭🪷 sometimes i feel like a fraud when it comes to unmasking because i believe we should all live freely and CHOOSE. OURSELVES. but in real time it’s so hard. and telling ppl what your needs are scares me. though that’s not the way i want to live. my family doenst even know i have full body shutdowns. i want to choose myself more.
2026-06-27 11:11:50
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ᡕᠵデᡁ᠊╾━ Latoria 𐦍 :
It’s an accumulation of reactions and emotions that I’ve witnessed around me
2026-07-02 20:28:48
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The VOID :
me after unmask
2026-06-27 09:35:11
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Nat Night 🌙 :
get ready to wake up one day and be a diffrent person. like the old you is just gone!
2026-06-28 20:08:28
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Warisa :
💯
2026-06-27 14:59:06
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James :
💙💙💙😎😎😎
2026-06-27 09:47:01
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imyjo s h i e :
💛⭐️💛⭐️💛⭐️💛⭐️💛⭐️
2026-06-27 09:58:25
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Nikhil Raval :
💯💯💯💯
2026-06-27 10:08:21
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stevestate :
💯👌
2026-06-27 13:36:27
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