Individuals with autism may try to appear more “neurotypical” to protect themselves, but this often comes at a great cost to their mental health. “Autistic masking” or camouflaging refers to the ...

Autism masking involves consciously or unconsciously suppressing natural autistic traits, often to avoid stigma or fit in socially. While masking may provide short-term benefits in certain social ...

Source: Lloyd, D. & Light, A. (2025). Masking Authentic Self and Autism. Google Gemini [Generative AI]. In episode 10 of the Breaking Through Therapy Podcast, we spoke with autism coach “Alfi” and ...

Masking, sometimes referred to as camouflaging, refers to when someone hides who they are authentically in order to meet an expectation that does not align with their true self. In autistic and other ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...

As the global community recently observed Neurodiversity Celebration Week, South Africa finds itself at a crossroads of awareness and action. This annual initiative aims to honour the diverse ways ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." At the time, I didn’t know what autistic masking was, but I was doing it way too well. This is a very ...