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Neurodivergent parents don’t just mask in person. We mask in writing. We rewrite emails, soften our tone, add exclamation marks we don’t feel, and schedule-send messages so our clarity or urgency won’t be misread. This invisible labor has a name: Digital Masking. It’s the quiet survival ritual ND parents perform inside systems that often respond more kindly to compliant parents than correct ones. Every softened sentence is emotional labor; every reworked draft is a disability-related communication accommodation that schools routinely overlook. Naming Digital Masking matters because once you can name a system’s pressure, you can finally begin to change it.