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This has been very difficult for my potentially autistic ass.
Personality mirroring and lots of smiles ๐
I usually last about 6 months of masking before I break. The best job I ever had was at a college where seemingly lots of people were "different".
Sadly the campus closed down.
I've found that if I can mask long enough to prove my competence people overlook my being a fucking weirdo when it slips off. I do work in IT though so I'm kind of middle of the pack as far as weirdos go.
It can be done. I am autistic, and Iโm usually able to fake it well enough to get hired by somebody. Then I try to optimize in ways that reduce the amount of effort I put in to the image.