Please read the Introduction first!

I, like a whole lot of other autistics I’ve been in contact with, am saddled with emotional immaturity. I used to joke that I was just a kid playing at being a man. Well… it’s no joke, anymore. It’s true. And I have no idea what I can do about it. It’s like adolescence never ended for me. I’m stuck at 16 years old! Oh, I can bluff my way through pretty much anything. I didn’t make to 71yrs by behaving like some emotionally crippled teenager hidden in an adult man’s body. Autistic masking can be very thorough and effective; especially with years of perfecting the masks. Yes… masks, plural. The mask that I project is completely modeled for the situation I am in. None of my masks portray the scared little kid behind them.