No Therapy, Still Broken: How Escaping ABA Didn’t Mean I Was Safe Speech became performance. Silence felt wrong. But avoiding therapy didn’t mean escaping harm—it just meant the trauma wore a mask too. This is what verbal masking really costs.

Verbal masking runs deeper than silence—and the scars of mimicry aren’t always obvious. Escaping ABA didn’t mean safety. #AuDHD #LateDiagnosis #VerbalMasking #NeurodivergentVoices #TraumaUnmasked #Chaos
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