The Autism Masking Reset: How to Stop Performing Neurotypical, Reclaim Your Energy, and Start Living as Your Actual Self (Wired Different, Band 1) - Softcover

Struijk, JM

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798253336830

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You've been performing your entire life. You just didn't know it had a name.

Every forced smile. Every rehearsed conversation. Every time you suppressed a stim, faked eye contact, or came home so exhausted you couldn't speak. That's masking — and it's been draining your battery for years.

The Autism Masking Reset is a practical, neurodiversity-affirming guide for late-diagnosed autistic adults who are ready to understand their masks, measure the cost, and start — carefully, strategically — taking them off.

Inside, you'll discover:

- The 8 categories of masking and how to identify YOUR specific masks
- The neuroscience behind why masking is so exhausting (it's not in your head)
- Why unmasking feels terrifying — and how to do it safely anyway
- The Selective Unmasking Framework: a tier system for deciding where, when, and with whom to lower the mask
- How to reclaim your stims without shame
- Word-for-word scripts for telling partners, friends, family, and employers
- How to rewrite your life story through the autism lens
- What to do when you can't unmask yet — harm reduction strategies that actually help

Each chapter ends with an Action Reset — a concrete exercise you can do right now, at your own pace.

This book won't tell you to unmask everywhere at once. It won't promise a cure (because autism doesn't need one). And it won't use the patronizing, deficit-based language that dominates most autism literature.

What it will do is give you the tools to stop performing and start living.

Book 1 in the Wired Different series — practical guides for late-diagnosed autistic adults.

If you're also navigating ADHD, check out the ADHD Reset Series by J.M. Struijk.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798253336830
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72
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