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Society Rewarded Your Masking, Then Blamed You for Burning Out

Download a visual guide explaining why your neurocomplexity wasn’t overlooked by chance—revealing how internalized capitalism rewarded your masking and punished your authenticity.

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Lindsey Mackereth
Jun 14, 2025
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For those of us who discover our neurodivergence—whether Autism, ADHD, Giftedness, or another form of neurocomplexity—later in life, the realization often comes with a bittersweet flood of clarity. Many of us have spent decades developing sophisticated masking strategies, suppressing or contorting our natural ways of thinking and being in order to meet societal expectations. At the heart of many of these adaptations lies a powerful and often invisible force: internalized capitalism.

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