With receiving an ASD diagnosis in my late teens, it was up to me to research and find out more information, in order to accommodate and learn about myself. There aren’t more autistic men than women. There are, however, a higher percentage of women that are undiagnosed due to their “innate” ability to mask their autistic traits. I was diagnosed with ASD after experiencing a severe burnout, wherein I was unable to maintain a social mask in public, communicate in coherent sentences, and I plainly isolated myself from the world to prohibit my desire to ‘fit into’ standard social norms. These symptoms still apply to an extent — prompting a debilitating livelihood that prohibits daily contact with the outside world.
To an extent, the online persona that I present feels a little bit disingenuous. When you have either been bashed or ostracized in the past for presenting these blatant autistic traits in-person, there’s bound to be that part of you that desires to create a refined, purified version of yourself. That is the reason that I want to utilize my platform for normalizing various neurotypes, and disorders. Simply put, there’s no point conveying perfection when it does not exist, and I hope that Facebrowser can blossom into a platform of support and positivity for those deemed “abnormal” for the quote-on-quote ‘normal person’.
With receiving an ASD diagnosis in my late teens, it was up to me to research and find out more information, in order to accommodate and learn about myself. There aren’t more autistic men than women. There are, however, a higher percentage of women that are undiagnosed due to their “innate” ability to mask their autistic traits. I was diagnosed with ASD after experiencing a severe burnout, wherein I was unable to maintain a social mask in public, communicate in coherent sentences, and I plainly isolated myself from the world to prohibit my desire to ‘fit into’ standard social norms. These symptoms still apply to an extent — prompting a debilitating livelihood that prohibits daily contact with the outside world.
To an extent, the online persona that I present feels a little bit disingenuous. When you have either been bashed or ostracized in the past for presenting these blatant autistic traits in-person, there’s bound to be that part of you that desires to create a refined, purified version of yourself. That is the reason that I want to utilize my platform for normalizing various neurotypes, and disorders. Simply put, there’s no point conveying perfection when it does not exist, and I hope that Facebrowser can blossom into a platform of support and positivity for those deemed “abnormal” for the quote-on-quote ‘normal person’.