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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: NDP Episode 161: Masking is One Way Our Amazing Minds Protect Us
Description: How do you feel about terms like people pleaser, codependent, inauthentic, or chameleon?We use these terms to describe when we are not ‘being ourselves’ in the presence of other people.I think this probably has some evolutionary significance in ensuring we remain members of a group. We are being polite and trying not to hurt feelings or cause conflict. We want to be liked.The neurodivergent community uses terms like ‘masking’ or ‘camouflaging’ to describe this behavior. Autistic people mask to hide behaviors that may identify them as autistic. Similarly, allistic or neurotypical people mask...