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Fawning and People-Pleasing Reflection Tool from Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price

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Unlearning Shame x Dr. Devon Price

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Unmasking Autism - Dr Devon Price, p. 57

For me it was Jak from Jak and Daxter

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BOOK REVIEW - Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing our Hidden Neurodiversity by Dr Devon Price

My third book this year was an eye-opening treatise on living with masked autism, trying to present as neurotypical when you're not, and the difficulties one can face as a result. I've often ended up feeling burnt out, exhausted, unable to do anything after even short periods of work, and reading Unmasking Autism brought a lot of familiar feelings to the surface that I had forgotten.

Too often we forget that the world is not made for us - the grind of daily 9-5, social obligations full of unwritten rules, and tedious tasks which seem utterly pointless, all serve to drain the energy of neurodivergent folk. For myself, I've struggled to hold down jobs and work without experiencing severe burnout as a result of my undiagnosed mental conditions. This book has finally explained why.

Dr Devon Price is an austistic social psychologist, and he's put his career to excellent use to construct a field guide to living with autism from the inside out. Too often, mental health conditions are diagnosed and researched from outside, with the scientist's demand for a dispassionate eye; Dr Price proves that lived experience can be invaluable to expanding our understanding of mental health, as he takes us through the history of autism research and explores the lived experiences of autistic individuals who have lived for many decades without a diagnosis. He calls out autism as currently viewed as a rich, white, male disorder, a problem codified by the eugenicist researchers who originally named it, and explores the condition in greater depth and scope, examining how it manifests in women and people of colour. He also looks at society as a whole, how it is structured to exclude those with autism and other disabilities, and points out how we can change all this to better support and encourage autistic people.

Overall this was an eye-opening book. It was greatly detailed and there were points where I found myself pausing in the realisation that Dr Price was expounding on a topic I had struggled with for much of my life. It has the problem that is quickly becoming familiar - that the chapters are too long to comfortably read in one sitting, and it feels as though Dr Price would try to find too many examples to demonstrate a topic at times. But for an examination of masking as an autistic person, and a guide to autism from someone who understands it with their whole life, it's a unique and long-overdue book.

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I can't even express how much Devon's first book has changed my life, so I am so excited for this one coming out next year!

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So I just started reading Dr Devon Price's Unmasking Autism, and it's such an odd feeling reading through the first few chapters. If you don't know, he talks about his experience with masking, and the techniques he used to survive, and how that affected him. And that's all fine and dandy (it isn't, he was really negatively affected by masking, it isn't fine nor dandy), but, the thing is, the way he masked is, like, the complete opposite of the way I did/do. Like, literally almost all of his problems are mine inverted.

So while I'm reading, a part of me goes, "woah, he's so lucky, I'm so jealous!" Even though I logically know that his masking experience was shit, and it really hurt him, and he's been taking steps to make it better and that means actively moving away from that, a part of me still goes "I want that!" purely because I've never had the whole excessive parties and alcohol and sex before. And I want that, maybe not the excessive part, but the part where you have people to party and drink and have sex with, and you have people you can talk to and who want a relationship and are actively wanting to be around you.

And it's SO WEIRD, knowing that those experiences are bad and uncomfortable and still kinda wanting them anyway. It makes me feel dirty, and kinda like my odd want to be cat called or hit on, because at least then SOMEONE WANTS ME. Even though I know it's uncomfortable, and gross, and makes you feel bad, even through all of that, some part of me takes it as validation, like some proof I exist and people desire me.

I'm not blind, this definitely stems from my childhood issues with being seen and acknowledged, and my later issues with not being shown any romantic/platonic/sexual interest as I got older, but my point still stands. It's REALLY FUCKING WEIRD knowing something is bad and wanting it anyway, like kinda craving it too. It's so odd and uncomfy and makes me feel pretty guilty too, and I cannot wait till the day where I don't feel this anymore. Someday soon, I hope.

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