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Masking and Camouflaging in Autism

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One Autistic Person

One Autistic Person

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Do you mask when in social situations?
The CAT-Q Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire is a test that is designed to see if you mask in social situations. Masking can be both conscious and unconscious so you may not even notice. Masking can be very tiring and can cause other physical and mental health issues such as anxiety or depression so find out if we do mask and then trying to moderate how much we do this can be beneficial to our health.
I complete the test with my feelings and how masking effects my personally, I would love to hear from other people who have taken the test what they scored and any stories/advice they can give on how best to 'unmask' or reduce the stress of social situations.
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What it tests
The CAT-Q measures the degree to which you use camouflaging strategies. The more you camouflage, the more of your autistic proclivities you are likely able to suppress. As such, a high camouflaging score can also account for lower scores on other autism tests. So if you don’t currently meet the diagnostic criteria but you still think you have autistic traits, then this could be why.
The CAT-Q measures camouflaging in general, as well as three subcategories:
Compensation - Strategies used to actively compensate for difficulties in social situations.
Examples: copying body language and facial expressions, learning social cues from movies and books.
Masking - Strategies used to hide autistic characteristics or portray a non-autistic persona.
Examples: adjusting face and body to appear confident and/or relaxed, forcing eye contact.
Assimilation - Strategies used to try to fit in with others in social situations.
Examples: Putting on an act, avoiding or forcing interactions with others.
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@TygerBright-z2o
@TygerBright-z2o 3 ай бұрын
I had no idea how much I was masking until after my diagnosis, after the assessment I started realising when I was and could physically feel myself dropping my mask after a short time of communicating with others. The thing that shocked me the most is I even mask when I am alone!
@OneAutisticPerson
@OneAutisticPerson 3 ай бұрын
It shocked me as well, I get what you mean with feeling the mask fall, often I'm 20 minutes in to a conversation with someone and I feel like my body changes and my face goes cold and clammy and then I can almost feel that I'm no longer having as many facial expression reactions. It is usually about the time my head starts saying "the conversation needs to end" haha.
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