Art can help people emotionally in a lot of different ways.
I think one of the ways it's especially strong for me as a neurodivergent person is that creating intuitively is the opposite of masking.
I've spent my life working so hard to contain myself, to make myself presentable & acceptable to others, to communicate in the way they communicate, that sometimes I feel like my natural way of being & expressing myself has been crushed out.
Art & unmasking go together for me.
Artemis
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