Foreword, by Katie Rose Guest Pryal Introduction, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark and Lee Skallerup Bessette Coping and Masking 1. For Those Who Do Not Love the Archives, by Catherine J. Denial 2. To Be Seen as a Whole Person: Masking and Unmasking in Higher Education, by David Dault 3. Barely Passing, by Emily Van Walleghen 4. Ripping the Mask Off: The Body Knows What the Mind Denies, by Jim Luke Higher Ed Structures 5. There Is No "One Path" in Academia, by Jorden Cummings 6. But Why? The Social Consequences of Boundaries as an AuDHD Person, by Shannan Palma 7. "It's all too much.": Finding a Place with Autism, by Robert Perret 8. Both Can Be True: Risk and Protective Factors for Bipolar Prognosis in Academia, by Darcy Gordon 9. Am I the Problem? Anxiety, Ambition, and Belonging in Higher Ed, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark Stigma 10. No One Brought a Casserole, by Melissa Nicolas 11. Alone at the Table: Neurodivergence and Fractured Networks, by Ronnie K. Stephens 12. Don't Ask Me How I'm Doing, by Lee Skallerup Bessette 13. My Autistic Transformation: A Journey Towards Acceptance and Advocacy, by Dixie L. Burns 14. Born Under a Bad Sign: An African American Experience in Higher Education, by Kyle Younger Bonus Chapter 15. "It's Okay to Be Human" and Other Lessons Learned Under My Desk, by Katrina Swinehart Held 16. Coda: Professionalism as Ableism, by Lee Skallerup Bessette Bibliography Index
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Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, is the director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal and the coeditor of Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education. Lee Skallerup Bessette is the Assistant Director of Digital Learning at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers.