Essay: Autistic photojournalism student prepares to enter a workforce that doesn’t yet understand neurodiversity
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Two years ago, I joined my student newspaper, ready to do work that I had dreamed of doing ever since I had entered college. I was 20, a junior and autistic. I struggled with assignments that weren’t clear, with expectations that I was supposed to know things – because my neurotypical peers did – or