{"id":41,"date":"2025-07-24T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:46:52","slug":"a-quick-thought-on-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/a-quick-thought-on-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick thought on Masking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, I think for most people in my orbit, I am a constant. I mask myself so consistently from their perspective that I always seem the same. I am not moody, easily offended (not that they can tell), or different. I am like McDonald&#8217;s; the menu and food are the same no matter where you are. I am comfortable and safe for most people. When I show worry, sadness, or any other emotion, it rocks the boat of others&#8217; perception. Making them uneasy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mask-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind serving as a constant. It is a service to my community, and I can tell how well I am masking from the feedback. I value my masking and feel warm and safe behind my comfy mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masking gets a bad rap, but it has helped me through many a trauma while protecting me from also having to deal with others&#8217; trying to help. In my experience, people don&#8217;t know the line where helping hurts. That does mean I have to deal with everything internally. I&#8217;ve never known anything else. I don&#8217;t even know what to do if someone could legitimately help me with my feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hot mocha is calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I think for most people in my orbit, I am a constant. I mask myself so consistently from their perspective that I always seem the same. I am not moody, easily offended (not that they can tell), or different&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anxietyclubhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}