“Masking” and “natural” kinda contradict each other

No they literally don’t. It is in my nature to mask. Whether it’s engrained in me since childhood, or it’s part of my DNA, I only know how to mask, and it’s very difficult for me not to. It’s MY nature, it’s natural to me. I do not make a conscious effort to mask.

Also for your first point, I typed out a whole article, realized it was preachy and entitled, then deleted it. Tbh, I probably shouldnt have made the comment at all. But Ive been fortunate enough that my depression never affected my need to shower. I attribute that to my autistic nature of 1) masking and 2) routine. Whether that’s the truth or not idk.

The point I was trying to make, and failed to do so, was that autism comes in many flavors. Mine apparently does the opposite of yours where I’m very self conscious about how I look, sound, and smell. I am confident that I don’t stink and I’m not nose blind to it cause I am so worried that I don’t smell pleasant, that I constantly take additional measures to fit in just like everyone else would.

I’m pretty fucking autistic, and I’ve never used nose blindness as an excuse to carry my stink out of my house.

Now to be clear, I’ve also dealt with depression, and my environment has not always been the cleanest. I have had a depression den in the past. But I always put an effort into separating my clean clothes from my room stink, and making sure I always showered before I left the house.

But I also have the high masking flavor of autism, so maybe that’s why that level of effort has come naturally.

LMAO, brother fucking stinks and nobodies bothered to tell them.

We use soap to wash away the stubborn oils that cling to our skin. Water can wash away the dirt and some of the scents, but over time that oil and musk is gonna build up and give you the sort of funk that’s reminiscent of dry aged beef and a crawl space.

You may think you don’t stink, but thats cause you’re nose blind. I’ve met many people who don’t believe in soap, and they all have the same muskiness to them. It varies from person to person, sometimes it’s not THAT bad, but it’s always there.

Literally everything by Cleopatrick and Primitive by not enough space

It’s okay if he uses that word, he has the pass. The ivermectin really set his IQ below Forest Gump levels.

Okay Bruce Greene

Some people with autism annunciate words differently. It’s not being pronounced (for the most part) differently, it’s sorta like an accent. Of course this isn’t the case for all autistic folk, considering a big part of the condition is ‘masking’, so mimicking even speech patterns is almost engraved in our brains. But for some who don’t care for masking, or are less adept at it, they tend to have a variety of unique speech patterns.

For myself, I’m a victim of misplaced rising or sinking tones. I go up or done on words or parts of the sentence that just doesn’t make sense. I also pause where people don’t normally.

As for actual words, my annunciation is just terrible. I over annunciate some syllables, and slur or combine others.

Also I say can’t like c + ain’t. Cain’t.

Most of them. I have that good ol autism speech pattern

The River by Wage War

We don’t actually promote higher levels of dopamine as far as I know. Dopamine agonists work by mimicing what dopamine does to your nervous system. It doesn’t actually produce any more. Also you can be given dopamine intravenously. It is mostly used to raise blood pressure in newborns. But you are right. For other uses, its smarter to mimic it, because of how short it lasts.

We do, however, promote a higher concentration of serotonin with SSRIs. We do that by blocking natural inhibitors that destroy serotonin after being used. This way we can use them more before they die off.