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For many neurodivergent employees, work isn’t simply a way to earn a living, build a career, or live out a calling—as much as we might yearn for it. Instead, it’s an arena where we are constantly ...

If you were diagnosed as neurodivergent later in life—autistic, ADHD, or otherwise wired differently—there’s a good chance you’ve spent years masking. You may have learned early on to hide parts of ...

The new school year is still weeks away in California, but summer break has hardly been a carefree romp on the beach. On July 12th, the California Department of Public Health, ignoring CDC guidance, ...

Roughly 2% of adults in the United States have Autism Spectrum Disorder – that's about 5.4 million people over the age of 18. And a lot of them go through their lives "masking." Social psychologist ...