Masking can best be thought of as a trauma response to a world that tells people that are different they should be cast out, and so in an act of survival, we supress who we really are to fit into the boxes expected of us.
I’d always thought of masking as the act of putting on a mask, ie, pretending to be something that you’re not, but now I’m thinking of it more in terms of painting, masking tape, covering things up.
You are not a burden. You have been burdened. – Rory’s Reckons
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already. –Robert Anton Wilson
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James
I’m apparently writing. I ate some food late, and while I was cooking, I was pacing. I was thinking, I was writing. I seem to burning a little brightly right now; that may explain the frustration. I guess. I’m not sure about that, but maybe the burning somehow
It was a long bad day. I was going to write today. It had such promise at the start. Ideas were just bubbling through, and for some reason the wind has shifted. I write all the time, but it’s for me, for my journal. I have to fight to
