Camouflaging in autism is the conscious or subconscious process of hiding autistic traits to blend in with neurotypical social norms. People use it to avoid bullying, find jobs, or feel accepted, but it often causes severe mental exhaustion, anxiety, and autistic burnout.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
