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May. 19th, 2025 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matsushimaI'm reading a lot of self help books and watching a lot of cult documentaries. I'm not sure what that says about my mental health but it's probably not great.
I finished reading Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging by Dr. Hannah Belcher last night. It was… OK? I felt unsatisified at the end, which is probably why I jumped right into another self help book, How to Meet Your Self: An Inspirational Self-Help Workbook by Dr. Nicole LePera.
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I guess it's not fair to criticize a book for not being the kind of book you wanted it to be, so if you're interested in some CBT worksheets for working through your anxiety about unmasking in public, maybe you'll get more out of Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging than I did? I mean, it's right there in the title: "Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging" (emphasis added), not "Practical Exercises and Interesting Stims to Try and See if You Enjoy Them."
edit: called it, re: are you a cult leader?
I finished reading Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging by Dr. Hannah Belcher last night. It was… OK? I felt unsatisified at the end, which is probably why I jumped right into another self help book, How to Meet Your Self: An Inspirational Self-Help Workbook by Dr. Nicole LePera.
( ✂️ )
I guess it's not fair to criticize a book for not being the kind of book you wanted it to be, so if you're interested in some CBT worksheets for working through your anxiety about unmasking in public, maybe you'll get more out of Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging than I did? I mean, it's right there in the title: "Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging" (emphasis added), not "Practical Exercises and Interesting Stims to Try and See if You Enjoy Them."
edit: called it, re: are you a cult leader?
