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Unmasked: A Late-Diagnosed Adult's Guide to Autism, Masking, Burnout, and Coming Home to Who You Really Are
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For as long as you can remember, you have run a quiet arithmetic that other people seem to skip - where to put your eyes, how long to hold a sentence, when to laugh, how to soften your voice so it lands as warm and not as strange. You called it your personality. You called it trying harder. You did not have the word for it.
The word is masking. And if you are only now realizing you are autistic - at thirty, at forty, at sixty - UNMASKED is the book for the moment the ground rearranges itself beneath you.
Written for the late-diagnosed and the self-identified adult, this is not a clinical manual and not a verdict. It is a warm, intelligent field guide for the high-masking adult who spent decades performing normalcy - and is ready, carefully and on their own terms, to set the performance down.
Across fifteen chapters and fifteen practical exercises, you'll work through:
- What masking actually is - and the hidden exhaustion of a lifetime spent performing
- What the autism spectrum truly looks like in verbal, capable adults who learned to hide
- The double weather of grief and relief that recognition brings - and why both are valid
- Sensory truth, stimming, and the self-regulation you were taught to suppress
- Autistic burnout - what it is, how it differs from depression, and how to recover
- Disclosure, relationships, work, and finding the people who don't require the costume
You do not need anyone's permission to recognize yourself. You only need somewhere to stand while everything you thought you knew about yourself comes into focus. This is that place - a translation, and a way home.
For readers of Devon Price's Unmasking Autism, Sarah Hendrickx, and Katherine May.
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