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LeetCheet posted...

I want to tell my coworkers about my diagnosis but I have no idea how they'd react.
I would also like to tell them how depressed I am all the time, but people usually misunderstand what depression really is.
It's really hard to understand how it is to be depressed unless you've experienced it yourself at one point.

One good thing with my Aspergers diagnosis I guess is that it's extremely cheap for me to go to the dentist.
It literally costs me like 35 bucks to do whatever I currently need at the dentist.

My experience with disclosing has not been positive. I dont want to scare you or give negative advice or whatever, but in most circumstances where Ive disclosed Im Autistic, I have been met with hostility and belittlement. Even when its not that extreme, people still end up treating me differently once they know Im Autistic. Im good enough at masking that I just let most people assume Im awkward unless we start getting close.

Kanatteru posted...

i also i don't really (or try not to) mask anymore and that definitely improved my mental health significantly, it's just so draining

i wish I could do this. I dont know how to stop masking, I dont know how to find a place where Im comfortable not masking. I dont know what being myself is because Ive been masking for so long. Im drained all the time constantly putting up this facade of me that is not me and I just want to die.