Why Neurodivergent Adults Mask on the Access to Work Assessment Call (and How to Avoid It)
They told you they’d ring. You’ve been on high alert for months. “Don’t miss the call, don’t miss the call.” You are quite rightly, exhausted. There’s been all the admin in filing your claim, all the while dealing with pre-call anxiety and the quiet trap of Access to Work masking, with an internal voice looping: […]
Masking: The Exhaustion of Not Being Ourselves (And not knowing what we want!)
Here is a truth that I think we often miss: We are not used to being ourselves. I’m just going to dive right in. When we are young, we start to realize that just by being our natural, unfiltered selves, people look at us differently. And because we are hyper-sensitive, we notice it more than […]