Unmasking Isn't a Movie Moment: The Hidden Toll of Late Autism Diagnosis

Unmasking isn't a decision. It's a slow, disorienting process of finding out what's underneath — and discovering that the thing underneath is someone you've been managing at arm's length your whole life.

In this episode, we talk about what unmasking actually involves for adults who have been performing since childhood: what gets harder before it gets easier, what you're allowed to reclaim, and what it feels like the first time you stop performing in a room and nothing bad happens. This is the episode at the centre of everything HeyASD is built on.

If you want to go further, The Unmasking Years is the book we wrote for exactly this moment. https://www.heyasd.com/products/the-unmasking-years

Read the full article: https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/unmasking-after-late-diagnosis