minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyztoAutism Memes@lemmy.zip•Then eventually you get the point where you wonder if you are masking at alllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 days agoAfter years and years and years of masking… I finally was fed up and stopped giving a shit. I’ve found like a few of my family members actually like me more now because I don’t politely hide my feelings anymore. “Okay. This was fun. I’m heading out now. Bye!” “You’re leaving? Why?” “Because I don’t want to be here anymore. Okay bye!” No more midwestern goodbyes ever . I’m seen as “rude”, at first, then many people slowly start to go “Boy, I wish I could do that…” I’m still trying to find “me”, though, sometimes. linkfedilink
minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyztoAutism Memes@lemmy.zip•I can't count things to save my lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months ago linkfedilink
After years and years and years of masking… I finally was fed up and stopped giving a shit.
I’ve found like a few of my family members actually like me more now because I don’t politely hide my feelings anymore.
“Okay. This was fun. I’m heading out now. Bye!”
“You’re leaving? Why?”
“Because I don’t want to be here anymore. Okay bye!”
No more midwestern goodbyes ever .
I’m seen as “rude”, at first, then many people slowly start to go “Boy, I wish I could do that…”
I’m still trying to find “me”, though, sometimes.