Love on the Spectrum: Autism & Dating
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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Is There a Difference Between Masking and Imitating?
Aan, you also mentioned masking or mimicking before. Can you help me understand those concepts a little bit better? Sure. And they're different, and they can both work for you and against you. So start with the mimicking first. One of the things that you'll see with kids on the spectrum, oftentimes, is that they'll be able to script,. That is, to play off of and actually re enact scripts from their favorite tv shows or books to the letter. I think that actually helped me in that i could pick and choose lines from characters that i played to then play characters in real life a little bit.
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