Hidden in Plain Sight: Autism, Masking & Late Diagnosis That sentence describes a large number of the autistic adults assessed in clinical settings every year. They do not arrive describing sensory pain or social exhaustion. They arrive describing anxiety, burnout, or a vague, persistent tiredness that nobody has been able to explain. The hiding started so young that it stopped feeling like hiding. It simply became how they exist in rooms with other people. This post is for a