Autism, ADHD and the Many Layers of Masking

In this episode of Autistic POV, I talk about Autism, ADHD and how a dream and a couple of synchonicities helped me identify another layer of masking.

My strong autistic special interests and the way hyperactive present for me, make me different. Every time I think I’ve got to the bottom of that I haven’t—but guidance does help!

(I don’t get to the dream until near the end.)

After a lot of back and forth, I decided to just rename my newsletter “Barbara Graver.” It’s kind of lame, but coming up with a clever name for a newsletter covering three different topics (creative writing, metaphysics and neurodiversity) is almost impossible. I’m also realizing that the strong desire to do the clever name thing—even when it doesn’t fit—is masking adjacent.

These posts are related to the topics I discuss here:

How Autism and ADHD Overlap

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Jan 24

About This Episode (23 min) | In this episode of the podcast I talk about my own lived experience of how autism and ADHD overlap and sometimes complicate each other.

(https://barbaragraver.substack.com/p/autism-adhd-and-faith)

(https://barbaragraver.substack.com/p/carl-jung-and-the-age-of-aquarius)

(https://barbaragraver.substack.com/p/dreams-tarot-and-the-age-of-aquarius)