How Good Are You at Hiding Your Autistic Traits?

The issues with masking for Autistic adults.

Ines May
ArtfullyAutistic
Published in
4 min readFeb 14, 2022

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I recently wrote an article about the struggles I had with job interviews. It’s common when talking about such topics for Autistics to hear «you just need to develop your social skills».

It’s funny because there’s likely no one who knows this better than Autistics. Yes, I know it’s…

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Ines May
ArtfullyAutistic

Veterinarian, diagnosed with autism at 27, writing to figure life. E-mail me at ineslmedium@gmail.com Become a member: https://inesl.medium.com/membership