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

But if you dig a bit deeper, they'll say, well, I was actually bursting to say something, but I was so conscious, you know, socially conscious or anxious to do that.

How would that look?

So the autistic side is masking it.

But then if you start getting them to talk about, you know, a certain PlayStation game that they're really into, they'll can talk about that for hours.

non-stop and they know everything about it all like their favorite tv show they know all about the actors and the characters and everything or for example um one of the questions that we ask in an adhd assessment is about you know are they very organized and they'll say yeah no i've got lots of color-coded diaries and long lists and so you'll say no they don't have that as a symptom

But if you dig a bit deeper, but did they actually execute those tasks?

Did they know how to prioritize them?

No, they don't sometimes, right?

Unless it was an area of absolute passion.

So they can mask each other and camouflage each other.

And unless you go to someone who really has a true understanding of both of those conditions, you will never understand your full sort of neurodivergent profile.

So, I mean, I think the figures show around 15%.

It's more the other way around.

Actually, when you have autism, as a diagnosis, you probably likely have ADHD traits.

And it's quite complex because you can have both, but reveal a bit more of an autistic profile or more of an ADHD profile.

But that's why really careful sort of history taking examination of that is really important to understand it.

Yeah.

So there's one cohort of patients that have been studied quite a lot.

These are females with autism and ADHD.

And that group is particularly vulnerable to very high levels of masking, but in particular masking their emotions.

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