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The Immigrant Experience and Neurodivergence with Sandhya Menon

The Neurodivergent Woman

CHAPTER

The Importance of Unmasking Your Authentic Self

Every strategy that we use as a way to fit in or assimilate is essentially a safety strategy, whether we're masking for neurodivergent purposes or masking for cultural purposes. So the process of unmasking and identifying that authentic self is really dependent on whether or not you're now in a situation where you feel totally safe to do that. And I know that I've had to move neighborhoods in order to find that safety.

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