#Masking

Julia Carrie Wong

I spoke to people who are still masking outdoors. They’re not anti-science or pandemic “addicts”. They’re making a choice based on how they’re treated in public. “It’s like taking away

Autistic people being increasingly open and vocal isn’t because ableism has disappeared, it’s because masking is so bad for our mental health that even constant hurt and stigma is less

I didn’t know I was masking, after probably 38 years of masking.Some masking was “easy:” don’t talk. Don’t talk because you’ll say something weird that no one will understand; and,

tilly | autistic+adhd

ADHD vs autism, masking; a thread i masked my ADHD for years. this included not letting myself fidget, trying to tone down how much i talk, sitting still, trying to

I didn't have privacy as a child, so masking became a means of survival. A false impression of myself helped me to get through situations I didn't understand. When I

(1/ ) A month after @GregAbbott_TX lifts the Texas mask mandate & all business restrictions, the Texas Senate passes a bill that requires masks on toddlers and 6 ft distancing

Siddhartha Mukherjee

1/n FWIW, a potential way to open economy:1. Universal masking (N-95 preferred) with decontamination and free redistribution every 2 weeks2. Policing/social policing to enforce masking (non compliers have to have

Bella Hadidn’t.

Sure, cleansing each day helps to clean your skin by removing dirt, oil, makeup and impurities from the surface of the skin. You still need to mask 1/2 a week.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

1/n Listen: this is getting into irritating territory. If you want to re-open business, scientists have offered a plan. 2/n Vastly increase testing. Expensive, but the cost is minimal compared

pati ☁️ are from bummerland ✨

There’s this audio on tik tok about hyperfixation, and people use it to show off their hug ass collections of products related to what they are fixated with. I have

alright, a few things:-if you are filming at a protest, avoid faces. if you get faces, don't post the footage immediately, there are multiple free face blurring apps on all

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I wrote on instagram about the misconceptions of girls not being able to be autistic, and you can access that post here: https://instagram.com/p/CD_6Pj9DprH/

Western doctors didn't believe the young Malaysian-Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh, who realized that the 1910 Manchurian Plague was transmitted through the air, and that a simple cotton mask could reduce

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Yesterday, I received some interesting news. It didn’t come as a surprise – it’s something I’ve suspected for a long time – but now it’s been confirmed.I am autistic. 1/9

Autism and masking, orwho the hell am I then?A brief intense thread. Please share. /1 Masking is the conscious or subconscious effort that an #autistic person makes to appear neurotypical