Catherine’s Reviews > Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity > Status Update

"For me, and for countless 'high functioning' Autistics, communication and intelligence became an essential part of our masks ... though my language was highly developed, my social and emotional life was not ... I also absorbed the idea, common to many 'gifted' children, that a person's intellectual potential belongs to society, not to themselves, and they owe the world greatness to justify their oddness."