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Treat neurodivergent masking as a daily energy budget — audit what passing as neurotypical actually costs you, where the spend is worth it, where you can safely drop the mask, and how to plan a heavy-masking day so you don't crash after. Use when someone says 'I'm exhausted from masking', 'work drains me and I don't know why', 'how do I unmask safely', or is autistic/AuDHD/ADHD and burning out socially. Produces a mask-cost audit, a spend/drop map, and a recovery plan. A self-knowledge tool, not a diagnosis or therapy.

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# Masking Budget Skill

Masking — suppressing stims, scripting small talk, forcing eye contact, monitoring
your face — is invisible labor that runs a real energy meter, and the bill comes
due as autistic/AuDHD burnout that neurotypical advice can't explain. The fix isn't
"just be yourself" (unsafe in some rooms) or "mask harder" (the road to collapse).
It's a budget: know what each masked situation costs, spend the energy where it
genuinely buys you something, drop the mask where it's safe, and plan recovery
around the days you can't. This skill builds that budget from your real week.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **mask-cost audit**: your recurring situations rated by how much masking each
  demands and what it costs you afterward (the drained evening, the weekend
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