 What is masking? Masking is a large component of social camouflage, but it's often used as a kind of catchall term for all elements of social camouflage. It's usually in the context of autism, although I have heard some people using in the context of ADHD. And one of the important things to note about this is the very, very common misconception that people have. It's not the same as shifting your behavior in different environments like neurotypicals would do, non-autistic people would do. We call this term neurotypical shifting because it's not autistic masking, it's not social camouflage. It's the differences that we have in different social contexts. And that's something that goes across every single human being. So whenever you hear the term masking and why it's bad, and you're thinking, oh, I'm pretty sure that I put on a mask in a lot of different situations. It's a very, very different thing.