Ever had someone read you completely wrong — and watched that decide how they treated you?
It starts young (a classroom, a label, a story told about you instead of understood). It shows up in jobs, in relationships, in the moment you finally try to set a boundary and get met with "that seems unreasonable."
Turns out masking isn't really about hiding. It's what happens after you've been seen wrong one too many times — and started performing the version of you that might get seen right.
In this episode:
Why a first-grade classroom shift gave me a clue decades later
The real reason a "reasonable" ask can leave your body in knots
What witches, mad women, and AuDHD brains actually have in common
Why masking might not be about hiding at all
What "being seen right" might actually feel like
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