Masking is a strategy that some autistic folks use to appear non-autistic and be more accepted in society. Researchers are just now beginning to explore masking in autism, so it is hard to say how ...

For autistic people, masking-presenting yourself in a way, either consciously or unconsciously, to fit in better in a neurotypical world-can be both necessary and exhausting. That's where the concept ...

Autistic people make these changes in an effort to match dominant social norms. Some ADHD-ers also embrace the concept, though ADHD masking remains under-explored in research. In my late twenties, I ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived—or "pass"—as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...

I didn’t know I was different from the other kids. I just knew I was trying very, very hard. I had friends. I laughed. I did well in school. From the outside, I looked like a socially capable, ...

I thought I sucked at life. On the outside, I was positive and upbeat, a married mom of three, a business owner. I had a mortgage, an investment property, a postgraduate degree in psychology. I had ...

The idea that people can 'mask' symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has contributed to the rise in diagnoses, but is it based on good evidence?