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COMPANION: The Performance Review Happening in Your Head at All Times

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Autistic Amber
May 07, 2026
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If you spent years surviving socially by monitoring yourself, you are probably not going to stop doing it because someone told you to “just be yourself.”

In the main post, we talked about how your nervous system did not develop self-surveillance randomly. It developed because paying close attention to yourself once helped you anticipate confusion, reject…

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