The Importance of Being Socially Appropriate

I think so many ADHDers do because I think at some point we've all been kind of accused of like being self-centered in one way or another. There's a sense that there is appropriate behavior and we don't naturally come by that, he says. We have to really be like okay this is a situation where I need to act appropriately it's not a safe place like homeso I have to put all of my mental energy into being socially appropriate. The conversation of masking is so interesting too because it's so wide ranging in terms of how people mask but also sensitive in terms of some of the serious masking that happens in autistic community.

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