@unmasking.conversations
masking. burnout. the quiet exhaustion of being "fine". unmasking conversations puts plain-language words to the hidden experience of being neurodivergent in a world that wasn't built for you.
written from lived experience, by a speech pathologist who has lived it too.
what this is
if you've ever left a perfectly fine day feeling completely hollowed out ... rehearsed a conversation before it happened ... or spent years wondering why everything felt harder than it seemed to for everyone else ... you're in the right place.
unmasking conversations gives language to experiences that are usually invisible. not to diagnose. not to label. just to finally help you understand yourself.
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resources
guide 01 · available now
why social interaction is so exhausting
for anyone who comes home from a fine day completely drained ... and has never known why the exhaustion is so real, even when nothing "bad" happened.
guide 02 · coming soon
how to reduce masking
the follow-up. once you understand why masking happens ... what comes next? finding ways to exist more authentically, with less self-erasure.
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a free, plain-language guide to noticing when you're running low ... and gently topping yourself back up. add your email and it's yours.
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a sneak peek
unmasking conversations
for people who want to understand why social interaction feels so deeply exhausting.
@unmasking.conversationsthat everyone rehearses conversations, analyses tone, replays interactions afterwards, overthinks their responses, and monitors themselves the whole time.
then one day, we realise that's not true.
it took me 27 years, an ADHD diagnosis, years of supporting neurodivergent clients as a speech pathologist, and a lot of hyperfixation, to understand why socialising exhausted me so deeply.
communicating in a neurotypical world is not instinctive. it is learnt.
through observing. mimicking. practising. analysing. this guide is for those who feel exhausted by it ... to give language to your experiences. and to finally feel seen.
— 1 — @unmasking.conversationsthat's the first page. the full guide carries it through all seven layers ... and out the other side.
read more about running on emptywhat people are saying
laura is giving language for experiences i could never find.
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this is so insightful!!
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love this and the insight!
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about
speech pathologist. late-diagnosed adhder. chronic overthinker. probably rehearsing this sentence in my head right now.
i spent years assuming i was the problem ... that if socialising felt exhausting, that was a me thing. a personality flaw. a sign i just needed to try harder. it took 27 years and an adhd diagnosis to understand that the exhaustion wasn't weakness. it was the cost of a brain working overtime to do things that felt automatic for everyone else.
then i started seeing it in my clients, too. people who were managing, performing, holding it together ... and quietly running on empty. they didn't always have the words for it. i wanted to give them some.
that's what unmasking conversations is. the honest, specific, human explanation i wish someone had handed me a long time ago. if it helps you understand yourself a little better ... or helps someone in your life understand you ... that's everything.
a few honest answers
ready when you are
the words i wish someone had handed me ... for less than the cost of recovering from a day of this.
read more about running on emptynext up: reclaiming our identity ... how to reduce masking.
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