The 4 Types Of Autistic Masking (97% of People Only Know The 1st Type)

Do you want to know what autistic masking actually feels like from the inside?

Dr Carly Jones MBE is one of the world’s leading autistic advocates. Diagnosed as autistic in adulthood after both of her daughters were diagnosed, she has spent nearly two decades improving the lives of autistic people through policy, education and lived experience.

In this episode, Carly explains what masking actually feels like from the inside, why so many autistic people learn to hide who they are from childhood, and the emotional cost of spending years pretending to be someone else.

Together, we explore people pleasing, self-abandonment, loneliness, burnout, and the difficult journey of discovering who you really are after decades of masking.

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer

01:56 The Mask You Didn't Know You Were Wearing

09:31 Is Your Brain Protecting You Without You Knowing?

11:42 The Childhood Moment You Learn It's Safer Not To Be Yourself

14:50 What Rejection Does To The Autistic Brain

18:23 Mask #1

22:25 The Day You Stopped Showing What You Loved

27:01 Mask #2

30:19 When People Pleasing Stops Being Kindness And Becomes Survival

34:25 The Moment You Start Abandoning Yourself

37:29 Tiimo advert

38:48 Mask #3

41:39 What If You're So Good At Reading People... You Forget Who You Are?43:34 Mask #4

46:43 How People Can Think You're Fine While You're Falling Apart

48:28 The Loneliness Nobody Talks About In Autism

51:07 The Warning Signs Your Mask Is About To Break

57:49 How To Start Taking The Mask Off (Without Losing Yourself)

01:01:19 Why Letting Go Of The Mask Feels So Terrifying

01:08:37 How To Know What's Really You... And What's Just Survival

01:11:47 The Lie Neurodivergent People Blame Themselves For

01:16:27 "I Don't Know Who I Am Anymore."

01:18:50 A Letter To My Younger Self

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Producer: Timon Woodward

Recorded by: Hamlin Studios

Trailer editor: Ryan Faber

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