Ella McCrystal

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542 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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ADHD Chatter · Trauma Expert: 3 Oddly Specific ADHD Trauma Issues · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

So...

To remove the mask is to reveal the real you and the real you has been told that you're a problem your entire life.

However, the road to authenticity, although it is difficult and it takes a while, once you're free to be yourself and admit that you are flawed as well as hurt, I'm deeply flawed.

But I'm also deeply hurt by some of the things that have happened in my life.

I'm deeply hurt by being misunderstood and labelled as the problem.

But again, those adaptions have created narcissistic parts of me at times, certainly in my 20s, that I am deeply ashamed of.

But if you can say that out loud and people still like you, it's like, huh.

I can still be me and actually that's okay.

Because guess what?

They're probably doing the same.

There's a large number of people carrying trauma, autism, ADHD, or all three.

We don't know the actual statistics, so there's so many people that aren't diagnosed.

And if it's not one of those, it's something else.

So, yeah, probably we'll all carry on masking for the rest of our lives.

But let's be honest about it.

We can mask and we can say, I feel like I'm masking.

I need a break.

This is a bit too much.

Just admit it.

If nothing else, admit that you're masking.

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