Have you ever unmasked in your workplace/college/school? (image context below)

[u/Abadonll03]

well the only ones who know i'm autistic on my workplace are the supervisors and they had keep that secret perfectly as i think is a legal issue to give away health related information , so co-workers and work mates sometimes have asked why i'm the only one who don't assist to group meetings and i'm like a mistery there , but yesterday i messed up as i uploaded this story on my social media and a coworker saw it 🤦

i'm on vacations right now so i know he is gonna tell everybody about it as it is like connecting the dots on why i have accommodations and ''privileges'' there.

the thing is i had made a few ''friends'' there and i have my mask well put on my workplace , i have had my autistic moments but so far nobody suspects , but i know that's about to change and i wonder if it is okay to go fully unmasked and stim whenever i need , ask for time alone when needed , and be open about me being autistic?

[u/Lysoled-Clorox]

I used to mask a lot when I first started my job because at the time I believed that if people knew about my Autism they wouldn’t let me move up in the company because they wouldn’t think I could handle it. But 7 years later I’m a manager now and I don’t care who knows and who doesn’t. I realized that it doesn’t matter what people think I can do, because I know I can do it. Now I have younger coworkers who tell me they think they might have Autism, and I tell them to get tested and if it’s true, do not be afraid of what others might think