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What is masking?
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Right, lots of people have felt depressed too. That doesn't mean they've got clinical depression. It is clinical when it is so extreme that it impacts every facet of your life.
Think of it this way: lots of people can't see well, but not seeing well doesn't mean blind. If you don't see well you can improve your life by wearing glasses. If you're blind glasses aren't going to help. The whole way life functions revolves around dealing with being blind. There are all sorts of things you'll need to do to cope with blindness that people who aren't blind, or simply don't see well, don't have to do or think about. So it isn't quite right to equate not seeing well to blindness, even if people who don't see well can imagine what not seeing at all might be like since they can partially experience not being able to see.
I do have clinical depression. and ADHD. Are you saying I'm autistic too? maybe we're attributing too much to any one disorder.
I have no idea how you arrived at that conclusion. You have depression and ADHD. You're diagnosed with this because of their significant impact on your life. What does that have to do with autism? My analogy is meant to say many people can experience something to some extent without it being so significant that it's diagnosed. I've been depressed but I don't have depression. A person with glasses can't see well, but they're not blind. You've experienced some of the things in this post but it doesn't mean you have autism.
If you do suspect that perhaps some of your behaviors put you on the autism spectrum such that it has a pervasive and constant impact on your life then you should seek out a professional to be evaluated.
Edit: As an aside, this post isn't describing autism. It's giving examples of "Masking" which is only one set of behaviors. These behaviors in and of themselves are not specifically autistic, but this combined with many other behaviors together create a pattern that is attributed to autism.