Episode 55: ADHD and Masking
The ADHD Adults Podcast
Masking Your ADHD
Masking is what it sounds like hiding your ADHD creating a version of yourself through avoidance or suppression that appears. Appearing to other people to be closer to the neurotypical average masking is sometimes called camouflageing for obvious reasons. Sometimes it's called impression management by people who really want special psychology words to sound clever. Similar to the autistic mean tea is just a benign thing of wanting to fit in. We face stigma, actual discrimination in jobs with friends, acquaintances, even cultural dominance is constantly honest,. expecting us as a minority to display normative behaviour. People mask the luxury reasons. Sam, what's the more politically correct term than normal? Politically correct, normal. Are you met
