a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said “does spock make himself ‘more palatable’ for others?” and had me promise to keep unmasking like:
untitled by cindy sherman, 1989, two transparencies printed in colours + superimposed in a black painted aluminium electrical lightbox, 80 × 60 × 8.5 centimeters
I was really led to believe before watching the x files that it was like. “strange phenomenon happens, it’s ambiguous whether it was paranormal in nature, Scully thinks it’s explainable but Mulder has a crazier explanation” but no. every single episode has been “Mulder sees absolute, unambiguous, incontrovertible proof of the existence of aliens but Scully happens to be in a different room every time”
