Masking and “Autism” – A Narrative?
🇬🇷 Ελληνικά The concept of “masking” or “camouflaging” is shaped within a framework of ideas surrounding dominant notions of the linear spectrum of functioning and the denial of difference in functioning, which influence the interpretation of our lived experience. The term “autistic” originates within the medical model and was first used as a differentiated diagnosis by Sukhareva, while earlier Bleuler had used it to describe a condition that did not constitute a separate diagnosis in itself.