“I appear very organized to the outside world, but only because I spend an immense amount of time and energy putting everything together.”“My house is an embarrassing cluttered mess.
I don’t let people come over. All of the pictures I take inside my home are carefully constructed and cropped to hide the clutter.”“I hate being late, and I struggle mightily to get to events on time.
If I see that I won’t be on time, I sometimes cancel going to an event altogether to avoid comments about my tardiness.”**This is ADHD masking, and a few examples of the painstaking efforts that ADDitude readers put forth to camouflage their symptoms and conceal how the condition impairs functioning.
In this sense, ADHD masking is about conforming to neurotypical standards to avoid the shame and stigma that continue to plague the condition.
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