20/03/2026
🎭✨ Understanding Masking 🧠
This Neurodiversity Week, we’re encouraging everyone to recognise the hidden effort many neurodivergent individuals experience.
Masking is when someone hides or suppresses their natural behaviours to fit in—like copying others, staying quiet, or pushing through overwhelm.
For many students and staff, masking can be:
• Exhausting
• Stressful
• Isolating
Over time, it can affect wellbeing and confidence.
At Grow Therapeutic Coaching, we support schools to create environments where people feel safer to be their authentic selves, with less need to mask.
💬 Small changes make a big difference:
• Create safe, supportive spaces
• Value different ways of communicating and learning
• Focus on belonging, not just fitting in
Because everyone deserves to feel seen, understood and able to be themselves. 💜