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1. SPSpeaker0:00

   Children actually start masking from very early age. When children start school at the age of four, they're expected to do good sitting and good listening. ADHD children can't do that definition of good sitting or good listening, or they can do one thing or another. They actually have to force themselves into that to be praised and reinforced and accepted.

2. APAlex Partridge0:18

   Dana Zameck is a world-leading ADHD consultant.

3. SPSpeaker0:20

   Specializing in female masking and loneliness.

4. APAlex Partridge0:23

   She has helped thousands of ADHD women-

5. SPSpeaker0:25

   Understand their diagnosis and themselves.

6. SPSpeaker0:28

   If people are undiagnosed or they actually didn't have a support dealing with masking, then masking can be obviously incredibly tiring. It can be almost like incorporating a mystery identity. There is no understanding of what is going on.

7. APAlex Partridge0:43

   Do you think there's societal expectations on women generally that makes them better at masking?

8. SPSpeaker0:50

   That's a good question. Um, well-

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