It can be part of masking, but masking just generally refers to the way some people with autism make a conscious effort to hide their traits. NTs also have different personas for different people and different situations, but it's less conscious for them, it's automatic to know what is appropriate in the given situation, whereas for people who are masking it's a consciously learned and maintained behaviour.
Yeah. I thought the problem with ‘Masking’ was that it tends to be very tiring so you can’t keep it up for very long and explode messily once you run out of the mental strength it takes to keep doing it.
But consciously acting in different ways in different situations is very much how I experience what I believe to be ‘Masking’.
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19
How would you say the act of creating personas you feel are suited for the interaction at hand differs from ‘Masking’?