Autism and Masking

How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have

272 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2021 by Kingsley Publishers, Jessica.

ISBN:
978-1-78775-580-2
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4 stars (1 review)

2 editions

Actually pretty insightful

4 stars

This is the first decent treatment of masking in autism that I've found, made better by the fact that one of the authors is #ActuallyAutistic. It gives a good overview of the (fairly minimal) research so far and I learned a lot from it.

My biggest frustration is that it's not very actionable: it's hard to see how the information presented could be used to ease the burden of masking, and the explicit advice for autistic adults is a single paragraph in the whole book.