Unmasked: From Moral Injury to Self-Alignment in High Masking ADHD’ers and Autistics

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Format: 60 minute presentation + downloadable materials
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Audience: Therapists, educators, and mental health professionals

Susan's Masking Story:
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1 AASECT CE
This program is approved for 1 AASECT CE credit, which may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Â Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. Â For further information, please contact [email protected].

Accommodations Menu
A printable 2-page resource therapists can use to help clients explore and implement neurodivergent-affirming accommodations.

Susan’s Story
A 10-minute video, interactive Q&A, and a bias reflection pdf to identify unconscious biases, ableist assumptions, or professional norms that pathologize neurodivergent traits.

Medical vs Affirming Language Visual
A Â chart contrasting deficit-based diagnostic framing with affirming, difference-based traits.

Polyvagal-Informed Healing Visuals and Graphs
Visuals and graphs explaining nervous system safety in relational, environmental, and intrapersonal contexts. Â

Ambiguity Intolerance Flowchart
Maps how binary thinking and unprocessed grief can lead to survival strategies like OCD tendencies, perfectionism, non-affirming labels,emotional numbing, and identity denial, which hinders healing.

Grief-to-Integration Intervention Pathway
Two pages of interventions that help clients move from grief to identity recognition, reclamation, and integration.Â

Compass for Neurodivergent-Affirming Connection
Content that teaches relational healing and co-regulated consent to move from misattunement toward mutual dignity, agency, and safety.

Flow State Intervention Prompts
After differentiating performative sex from flow sex, I will provide prompts supporting flow state considerations for sexual healing.
