This is INSANELY accurate. I cried. I didn’t know this was actually a thing until now and I was freaking out that something ELSE was wrong with me or I’m back to old patterns now that I’m more aware of sensory sensitivities

Ever since caring about and unmasking my adhd ive been having trouble staying in jobs. The way ive explained it to people is that bc i know i have a financial safety net (my parents) and wont end up homeless, i dont have the capacity to force my self to suffer through things that i know i can leave or not do. And theough this ive also realized a better career path for myself and what i need to look for in jobs. Ive also resigned myself to the fact that i gotta live with my parents for a couple years so that i can save up money and allow myself to find a job that will be accessible to me

Without this I might never have figured out why I am making less art. Is it my special interest or just an escape from all the stress?

I thought I stopped a lot of things due to depression. Which still is the most likely reason why. But now I'm healing myself and going through unmasking, feeling better then what I was and... Im barely doing anything. I feel like doing absolutely nothing a lot of times. The most I get excited about is taking a walk or hiking. But other then that, I just want to sit and do nothing. And it is so boring! I just would like to be excited about doing some other things again for myself. Which I am trying to do.

Would you say this could also be related to other skills such as memory? Ever since I started exploring I may be autistic and try to focus more on listening better to my own needs, I find that I have become way more disorganized. I forget things I would normally remember more easily, I also sometimes typo in really odd ways when writing on the internet such as say I would want to write the word "word", a normal typo could be something like "wod", but instead I type completely different words that sometimes don't even sound similar. I also notice how a lot of problems I've always had but had somehow managed to forget or push into the back of my mind have become massively severe. Like I used to feel ok in most social situations and have felt like that for the past years, and while I know this is the result of a lot of time spent observing people, studying social interaction and just practicing it, I suddenly feel like I did when I was much younger where I am much more aware of how much I struggle. Same thing with sensory impressions. It's really confusing.

HOLY SHIT. I don't game for 10 hours straight anymore because I'm actually listening to my body... holy shit... holy shit... These bite size info dumps are amazing. It's a bit wild, and incredibly intense, admitting that my hobbies might have mostly just been coping mechanisms.

Holy shit I feel like I probably would have had to spend $1,000 I don't have on therapy to learn what I learned in this video

So it begs the question, how does counseling them to stop masking actually help the autistic patient? Unless they come from a wealthy family, or can get disability from the government, you're making them less able to hold down a job and support themselves. And at least here in the United States, we do not have the proper infrastructure or funding in place to make sure that people with developmental and neurological disabilities will be guaranteed to have housing, groceries, etc., just from the government.

I am a software engineer, that's my job. I don't think i am on the spectrum, but i think this idea of unmasking and skill regression is a key to understand loss of so-called passion and skill regression. I don't write code on my spare time i much as i used to do, and i feel like in some area i am no longer as good as i used to be. But i realize i was not enjoying writing code and doing pet project as much as i thought. It was a mask to fit it and feel secure in my job and confident with my competence

No idea how you only have a few thousand followers. Your videos are genius….hilarious and informative

“Maybe you don’t need to self regulate as much because you’re not killing yourself masking” wow.😮

Do I want to cook for them or be in a good mood when they come over… I feel this !!

Painfully accurate. Literally almost in physical pain from the accuracy of this.

Omg the ending! Having an epiphany, but time's over & you get thrown out - story of my life *lol

Just had a conversation with my team Daughter today about stuff like this… She and her dad are most definitely on the spectrum (she’s almost done with her assessment. I’m wondering if I should get one…)

Oh my god. This is so accurate

Ohhhhhhh that’s what this is. Thank you, needed this.

Vert Accurate indeed, I'm struggling on how to adapt this to my own life while thinking god where shoud I work now I know all that. Difficult choice.

Wow! Thank you! That was Aha moment, helped me a lot.

I thought it was the burnout.