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Emma Gallagher, a researcher from Autism Spectrum Australia who also has autism, said women and girls have a higher tendency to do this compared with men and boys. "We're usually much better at it because of the way that we're socialised as children," she explained.
While it wasn't a secret, most of Karly's high school friends didn't know she had autism.Some of those behaviours would include things like becoming agitated when different food groups touch on her plate, being very sound-sensitive to white noise, or having an inexplicable repulsion at even the thought of touching a banana. "I don't want to be caught out. I don't want people to find out that I'm autistic. It's not that it's something that I want to hide but it's one of those things — like, how do you even bring that up?""I feel like it's exhausting," Karly said."I come home and I'm just emotionally exhausted."— the exhaustion that comes with masking and managing sensory sensitivities. "It takes a very heavy mental toll, because you're constantly in your brain processing 'OK, how am I supposed to react to this', instead of just reacting. "You actually have to think about 'how's my facial expression going to look? What does my vocal tone need to be? What should I be doing with my hands?'.At the core of it, Karly doesn't think Atypical really tackles how isolating it can be to have autism. "ASD is such a spectrum in itself and sometimes I find it hard to identify with other people," she said. "There's probably like one or two people that I've ever met that have been at my level of severity — although even our experiences are same, same but different."
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