Autistic Fawning: The People-Pleasing No One Warns You About

You agree before you've decided what you think. You smile through discomfort, smooth over tension, become whatever keeps the room calm — and only later, alone, notice how far you drifted from what you actually wanted.

In this episode, we talk about fawning — the survival response that turns connection into constant accommodation. We explore how people-pleasing becomes automatic after years of learning that safety means being easy to be around, why it's so often mistaken for kindness or just "being nice", and what it takes to find the boundary between caring for someone and disappearing into them.

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