A stranger who never learned to mask described the collapse my own masking led to. One counterexample undid the theory. New essay on situational mutism and embodied cognition. Read free: https://medium.com/the-other-mind-autism-cognition-identity/masking-never-caused-my-silence-a-stranger-proved-it-eacac0176d20?sk=d0f2e986101ef6a0161c2fc1144d0af0 Following is free and keeps this writing going: https://medium.com/the-other-mind-autism-cognition-identity #Autism #Neurodivergent #AuDHD