Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically — Hardcover

Unmasking is rarely a single moment. For most autistic adults, it's an ongoing process — one that extends well beyond self-acceptance and into the harder, more practical work of figuring out how to live, connect, love, and advocate in a world that wasn't built with autistic people in mind. Unmasking for Life is Devon Price's follow-up to his widely read Unmasking Autism, and it picks up exactly where that work left off. This hardcover guide offers practical tools for navigating friendships, family, romantic relationships, work, and daily life as an unmasked autistic person — covering five key areas: acceptance of change and uncertainty, engagement in productive conflict, transgression of unfair social expectations, tolerance of distress and disagreement, and creation of new accommodations and ways of living that work with autistic neurology rather than against it.

We carry this at EOWD because autistic adults deserve resources that take their full lives seriously — not just their diagnosis. Devon Price writes as an autistic person, a social psychologist, and a professor, and that combination shows in the depth and honesty of this work. Whether you're newly unmasking, years into the process, or supporting an autistic adult in your life, this book offers grounded, practical, dignity-centered guidance for the parts of life that don't come with a script.

Unmasking can be deeply personal, emotional, gradual, and different for every autistic person. This book may support self-reflection and identity exploration, but it is not a substitute for therapy, diagnosis, crisis care, medical care, workplace legal advice, relationship counseling, or individualized support. This book does not guarantee authentic living, improve relationships for every reader, prevent burnout, treat autism or anxiety, cure masking, or replace professional care.

Explore this guide and take the next step toward a life created on your own terms.

Product Specs

• Author: Devon Price, PhD
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• ISBN: 978-0-593735-75-6
• Dimensions: 23.88×16.26×2.54 cm (9.4×6.4×1 in)
• Publication Date: March 25, 2025
• Subject: Adult autism, unmasking, identity, relationships, self-advocacy, authentic living, neurodivergent connection, work and family
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States

• Brand: Devon Price
• Model/SKU: 9780593735756
• ISBN: 978-0-593735-75-6
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