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Busting Autism Myths

My Friend Autism

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The Myth of Autistic People Looking Like Us

The next myth I'd like to bust is a myth about autistic people looking alike. A lot of autistic people can often get things like, you don't look autistic. They're the mental effort to actually hide autistic signs. We call it masking. It's one of the things that people never talk about. But 99.9% of my true normal autistic genuine self would come across as something they're not comfortable with.

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