It’s quite simple. If you are masking, then you are most definitely not coping. Neurodivergent masking means hiding your sensory, processing, executive function and social needs behind a veneer of neurotypicality. Acting like someone or something you are not hiding your identity behind and wall of shame. It’s not a skill. It’s a survival method developing from a mixture of fear, anxiety and embarrassment and worry that one day, the mask will slip and other will see who you really are. This is ex