I've got a video uploading that I've been planning this week ... and turns out to be a perfect fit for 629 as well.
It's about neurodiversity, a subject with which I've been growing increasingly familiar ... and a common strategy many neurodivergent people develop, called masking or camouflaging - which is basically trying to be (or at least appear) "normal" and acceptable to others, to fit in and succeed in a neurotypical world.
Somehow the "Matchmaker" song from Fiddler on the Roof seemed like a good fit for this topic ... "make me a perfect mask". It's a fun lighthearted song about a very serious topic with huge potential impact on its subjects' lives - the three sisters who sing it go from romantically imagining dream husbands, to justified terror at the prospect of being married to someone truly abusive, repulsive, or both. Sometimes neurodivergence can feel like all of that.
It's a work in progress - the song and its creator. I left out the whole fun middle part where the sisters act out Yenta the matchmaker delivering the news of the not-so-wonderful matches she's found them. I may add that in later, but I wanted to get something in for this Season of pretending that inspired it.
(I'll come back and edit in the link in a few minutes when it finishes uploading. I don't know if it's my crappy internet or what, but they seem to take forever any more. Maybe it's something in my video camera settings, because the Zoom videos upload lightning quick.)
LINK!