Dr Shyamal Mashru

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ADHD Chatter · Psychiatrist Who's Diagnosed 10,000 Women With ADHD & Autism: "THIS Still Shocks Me!" - Dr Shyamal Mashru · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

Firstly, what were they like as a child before they learned what masking even was?

Right?

And often you're going to see a profile of them with sort of explosive emotions because they don't know how to explain what that feels like inside all that emotional turmoil.

So like the mother example on the outside surface, they might look like they've got everything together.

But at home, they've spent so much energy at work with their maladaptive coping strategies.

They're completely spent by the time they get home.

And then if you have a new stressor in your life, such as the birth of new children or a promotion in your job to a more senior role that you then struggle with, which has much more responsibility, or perimenopause and menopause, you know, sex hormones come into play and then that makes it a lot harder for you.

That is where the struggle is.

And the difference between the public persona and their personal life often reveals their ADHD profile.

So masking is when you are either consciously or often subconsciously hiding your ADHD traits in this example.

I say subconsciously because you've never been diagnosed with ADHD.

You don't actually realize what you're hiding.

But the point of it is that you're trying to appear together.

So you see this happening in a lot of people.

But let's just take someone who's potentially, quote unquote, again, high functioning or lower support needs.

If you're in a really sort of high-flying job, right, how embarrassing is it to say, yeah, but, you know, I left my clothes in the washing machine for two days and, you know, I boil the kettle loads of times and I make the cup of tea.

It just feels embarrassing, right?

So you try and hide that embarrassment.

And that's why you mask, yeah?

So that's the cause of it.

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