[ **up: [[Human body]] | [[Human behaviour]] | [[Neurodiversity]]** ] --- # Autism --- ## Masking ### Things not necessarily written in the context of masking/autism (but which vibe with me as if they were) [[2024-0527. 'When one is pretending the entire body revolts.' Anais Nin.|'When one is pretending the entire body revolts.']][^1] > I am trying to live my life more honestly, which is another way of saying I am preparing to embarrass myself much more.[^2] [^1]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, last modified 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^2]: Katie Bird, ‘Embarrassment Has Good Bones: A Comprehensive Venn Diagram of Things That are Terribly Embarrassing and Things That Make Life Worth Living’, *Marrow* (Blog), 3 January 2023, https://katielotz.substack.com/p/embarrassment-has-good-bones.