I’m Andychen. I’ve spent the past decade studying how we learn to blend in, and what that blending costs. Autism masking, sometimes called camouflaging, came up again and again in my interviews and diary studies. On April 3, 2024, I led a small week-long diary study with 18 late-identified autistic adults: many described masking as … Continue reading Autism Masking What It Is and Why It Happens