CHAPTER THIRTEEN LEADERSHIP PRACTICES
Leading While Stigmatized
NEURODIVERSITY NARRATIVES
ON ARMOR AND VULNERABILITY
How do you lead in a world where 50 percent of managers don’t even want to hire people like you?1 How do you lead in a world that stereotypes, misunderstands, and even hates you?
This is the question Jerry Gidner, a long-time US federal executive, writer, and Tourette Syndrome inclusion leader, had to wrestle with, as he shared with me:2
I have experienced the pity, the stigma, the hushed whispers, the condescending attitudes, the daily insults—some large, some ...
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