The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder in Tech
August 2025
"We celebrate mental health awareness until someone actually needs mental health support."
In The Inclusion Illusion, I explored how tech companies perform diversity while quietly eliminating employees who actually need accommodations. What I didn't share was the personal cost of that analysis—how living openly with schizoaffective disorder has systematically excluded me from the very communities I helped build.
Over the past few years, I've worked for at least twenty companies, cycl...
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