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Psychology
fromPsychology Today
9 hours ago

Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

Autistic people face epistemic injustice when researchers and authorities dismiss their self-knowledge and lived experiences, treating them as unreliable narrators of their own lives.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Living Authentically and Unmasking Autism Can Come at a Cost

Claney (2025) describes autistic masking as "a complex phenomenon in which autistic individuals consciously or unconsciously hide or modify their behaviors and traits to fit within societal expectations." Masking, Claney argues, takes a massive emotional toll on autistic adults and can be devastating to mental health. A substantial body of research supports these findings, with the entire neuroaffirmative movement as evidence of the psychological and physical costs of long‑term masking.
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