Jade at JMS Wellbeing

Masking isn’t a personality trait.
It’s what happens when the world teaches you, repeatedly, that you are the problem.

It’s not just “being shy.”
It’s rehearsing every sentence before you say it because you’ve been punished for being real.

It’s not just “social anxiety.”
It’s scanning every expression on every face to make sure you’re not about to be judged, embarrassed, or rejected.

It’s not just “being quiet.”
It’s swallowing your needs because you learned early on that your needs irritated people.

Masking is self-abandonment dressed up as being polite.

It’s the trauma of making yourself smaller, softer, simpler, quieter
just to survive rooms you should’ve been safe in.

It’s the grief of realising you’ve spent years playing the version of you that other people could handle
while the real you suffocated underneath.

And the unmasking?
It’s not pretty.
It’s not aesthetic.
It’s not instant.

It’s messy.
It’s uncomfortable.
It’s disorienting.
Because you’re meeting yourself again after a lifetime of being trained to disappear.

#unmasking #masking #autism #adhd #audhd

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Autism is one of the most misunderstood differences out there.

People often reduce it to “not liking eye contact” or “being socially awkward.”

But autism is a complex neurological wiring, and it comes with strengths that rarely get spoken about.

Here are 8 truths about autism everyone should know:

1. It’s not a lack of empathy. It’s a difference in how empathy is felt and shown.
Autistic people often feel deeply, sometimes so deeply it can overwhelm them, and the way they express it may look different. It’s not coldness, it’s a unique way of connecting.

2. It doesn’t disappear after childhood.
Autism doesn’t fade with age. What changes is how people mask, cope and adapt, often at the cost of exhaustion and burnout. Many adults live undiagnosed for years before finding their truth.

3. Autistic brains are wired for depth, not surface.
They don’t skim through life, they dive into it. This creates rich creativity, unique problem-solving, and insights others might miss. The flip side is that it can be overwhelming when too much demands attention at once.

4. Routine isn’t rigidity. It’s regulation.
Predictability brings safety in a world that often feels chaotic. Structure isn’t about control, it’s about lowering the sensory and emotional load.

5. Intense interests aren’t obsessions. They’re lifelines.
They bring joy, mastery and resilience. What may look “too much” from the outside is often a well of expertise, purpose and meaning.

6. Social struggles aren’t a lack of care.
They are about different rules, different timing and different processing speeds. Connection is still deeply valued, but it grows best with patience and authenticity.

7. Autism isn’t broken. It’s a different operating system.
The challenges usually come from the mismatch between environment and wiring, not from autism itself.

8. Autistic strengths shine in the right conditions.
Pattern recognition others miss.
Honesty and integrity.
Unique creativity.
Depth and passion in areas of interest.

Autism is not less. It’s different, and different deserves to be understood - not by people who have never experienced it but from the inside to help us do better.

Jade
JMS Wellbeing🫶

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I've been meaning to write this for a while. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am grateful to every single person who likes, subscribes, and interacts with my small channel.

I want to make more content for YOU.

Please let me know what type of content you would like me to make 💛

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Something me and my husband discovered in our marriage is - It''s important to love in the way the other feels love. Not in the way we do.

To love someone is to truly see them and meet them there 🌱💛.

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Why listening to your self through your personal alarm system (your emotions) is so important. #trauma #whenthebodysaysno #thebodykeepsthescore #thecostofstress

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