Ignore autism and other mental diagnoses, and you overlook a sizable slice of faculty and staff.
Autism is not a topic that gets raised very often in the academic workplace. So it’s no surprise that some professors and staff members would feel uncomfortable publicly talking about being autistic. Other people in academe are simply unaware of their neurodiversity. For example, autism is generally underdiagnosed in many populations, including among women and people of color.
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