MASKING - an extensive tutorial on how to make friends (2022)

In a world of strangers, neuro divergence is often an overlooked aspect in the context of daily interactions. Masking aims at capturing the struggle of mentally ill or otherwise divergent individuals and their struggle in mimicking the social cues of neuro-typicals. I wanted to better capture this conundrum in a way that does not romanticize this occurrence or glamorize it, but to rather empathize with the demographic in question.