“But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - only becomes an anomaly when she tries to fit in. Beyond any and all contexts, she is complete in herself.” AutismAutisticNeurodiversityNeurodivergence Book:Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat Source: Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
“Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn't even understand that she has been camouflaging herself until she gets her diagnosis. Before that, she thinks her struggle is everyone else's, too. At least, that's what it was like for me.” NonfictionAutismAutisticNeurodiversityMasking Book:Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat Source: Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat