Taking a look at neurodiverse artists. Image: Shutterstock.
In a world so confined by social and economic structures, there’s a strong overlap between two outlying communities: the artists and people with autism.
Both of these groups face struggles existing authentically in our current mode of society: the artists put down their tools of creation to work “day jobs” to pay the bills while the individuals with autism put on a mask to evade criticism and scrutiny of their “different” ways of being.
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