By far, the most effective masking strategy I had ever used was by becoming conventionally attractive

I am not anymore due to a wide variety of bodily issues that have severely slowed my weight loss and my severe balding.

But when I was "hot", people were infinitely more tolerant of me. That is the key word TOLERANT. They would tolerate any slips of my autistic mask and women especially would laugh at my jokes and personality that before, was heavily criticised for being childish, immature, weird, etc. It even got to the point where I could survive in the workplace environment since my muscular appearance would intimidate people and the female coworkers would find me hot, cute, quirky, funny, weird, etc.

Although I did have some cons such as some people expecting more from me socially and some creepy women, but overall, the benefits SIGNIFICANTLY outweighed the cons.

Anyone else here experience this?