Do you wear a "mask" everyday?

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Is it a challenge? To not let anxiety get to me depression or what people say or think of me I have to wear a mask sort of act like a psychopath!! !! It feels weird! Normal ME would cry have anxiety get upset with being yelled at etc. or feel bad over my sisters comments. But if I wear a mask and try to block it all out it's "Better" somehow. But I don't WANT to have to do THIS! It feels "better" yet weird!! ! Can anyone relate?

yes duh even if people don't realize it.

you should write your feeling in a notebook, then store it in a place only you can find. thats all i got

I feel like taking my mask off for a while.

Most of us on here have some sort of crafted social mask that we may choose to use.

Welcome to the human race.

Everyone wears masks.

i have given this some thought recently. i know i developed different masks depending on who i am interacting with and where i am. A mask for school, one for work, one for family, ones for social situations with various people. i developed them to try and navigate the different situations and to try and blend in. it got maddening really, and i have begun the experiment of getting rid of my masks or at least trying to have less masks that i change between. i would like to get to the point where i feel like i can be more authentic with others.

Normally at school or anywhere that isn't my house, I act like myself except for one thing: I act like Tourettes was never something I had.

I'm sorry, my tics are just so embarrassing that I'm constantly suppressing them. Once every few minutes, I look away, and scrunch up my face blink, or make a muffled noise.

This is why I'm a good actor; I deal with this every day.

I lack most emotions but i can see where your coming from. I have many friends who pretend to be different people to avoid social anxiety. I even have a friend who literally wears a mask in public.

I have a systematic way of interacting with people, which in turn develops into several "masks."

Work, school and general novel situations. I'm most myself around close friends and family. I could be blatantly obvious about stimming and none of my friends would think twice about it (but it's an easy shot for my husband to poke fun at me, which is all in good humor )

Don't feel bad about having a mask because in reality most people do, we just have an extra layer to put on, so to speak.

Only one of Guy Fawkes.

I get a lot of attention from the police.


Besides that I'm way too impulsive and lacking awareness to wear the metaphorical mask. And if I do wear one it lasts all of 3 seconds before slipping off.

I used to wear a big mask at high school. But now I'm in university I try to be myself as much as possible. But yeah, I'm still wearing a mask. And it's exhausting.

I don't like masks because they are usually just made of paper and string and are just some art project.

Only for robberies.

Life is pretty weird anyway. Whatever works is not a bad thing, including wearing the masks. But I did experience fatigue of a sort if I wasn't getting sufficient breaks when I could take it off.

Plus wearing the mask does teach you things I believe, or can. Like 'hey this unattractive NT behavior is kinda fun', and it allows you to gain acceptance. And acceptance gained by trying to learn/mimic someone's or a groups ways is not just an skill useful to Autistics. If you ever do serious traveling it can lead to very rewarding contacts.

yes this is what I wear everyday. Why does no one ever want me? I just wanna be friends.