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How to navigate authenticity when masking feels necessary

My therapist says I mask too much but when I do not mask people look at me like I am broken and I do not know how to exist in between.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between self-protection and genuine expression creates an impossible choice between safety and integrity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Neurodivergence — lived experience?”

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