Autism

Autism: There Is No Mask To Take Off

Why Autistics Do Not Need To Unmask

Frank Coles
4 min readAug 27, 2020

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Photo by Nong Vang on Unsplash

“I have to take the mask off.”

“It’s so difficult to unmask in public.”

“We mask until we collapse. The act of masking requires so much energy from day to day that we will burnout.”

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Frank Coles

Atypical entrepreneur, polymath, author, single-dad, scientist, hack, propagandist, adventurer. ~ featured in NatGeo, BBC, Guardian, Esquire, Top Gear