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When workplace inclusion feels like unpaid emotional labor

My coworkers keep asking me to explain what it is like to be autistic, as if I represent all autistic people, and I do not know how to say I just want to do my job without seeming ungrateful for their interest.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Others' curiosity about your difference becomes an additional job responsibility you never agreed to perform.

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