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When ADHD masking creates chronic fatigue

I feel like I am performing being a normal person all day long and when I get home I collapse from the exhaustion of masking my ADHD.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The constant effort to appear neurotypical depletes the nervous system through sustained performance of an identity that contradicts natural functioning patterns.

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