Autistic Math, Bimbo Mask

Hyperfemininity As Autistic Masking

Content note: mentions of misogyny, ableism, stereotypes, and safety navigation.

Hypersexuality became a language when none felt safe—purpose, identity, the warmth of being wanted after an upbringing that punished anything unpalatable. It worked like currency: in some rooms, status and fast‑pass belonging; in others, a downgrade stamped on competence. I learned the office grin that converts pain into compliance. The relief was real. So was the erosion: a credibility tax, a waiting self, a body paying interest.

This essay reframes “bimbo” aesthetics as situational autistic masking chosen under constraint: a glittered softening that buys time, space, and legibility inside hostile architectures. Through scene, mechanism, and an intersectional power analysis, it shows how the tactic can reduce harm in the moment and still narrow authorship over time. It’s a record of survival strategies, the costs they carried, and a path toward tactics that are revocable, pleasurable, and more protective.

Bimbofication is a harm‑reduction mask chosen under constraint that buys sensory relief and pacing by lowering neurotypical performance demands, and it exacts a material price in credibility, authorship, and safety—costs that rise with racism, transphobia, fatphobia, and ableism.