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Camouflaging is used on k12complaints.ca for content about neurodivergence, disability, learning differences, and the ways schools respond to students whose needs do not fit narrow norms. In education, these issues are never only about diagnosis; they are also about communication, sensory environments, executive functioning, regulation, stigma, and the supports a student needs in order to access learning and belong. This tag may appear in posts about accommodation, exclusion, behavioural interpretation, masking, assessment, late identification, and the mismatch between a child’s needs and institutional expectations. It is also used when challenging deficit-based assumptions that treat difference as a problem to control rather than a reality the school must understand and accommodate with dignity, flexibility, and meaningful support.

This page addresses what to do when your autistic daughter is camouflaging at school, experiencing significant distress at home, and the school is using her apparent coping as evidence that she requires no support. It covers the research on masking, the…