Masking to Get a Job (And Choosing When Not To)

Autistic Advice for job interviews.

16 min readApr 1, 2024

Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can send me questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here.

Today’s question comes from Tumblr user Artistic Bumming. Artistic Bumming has a job interview on the horizon, and they wanted to know if I had any tips:

Hey, Devon. I have my first job interview in a long time tomorrow, and I’m wondering if you have any links to related advice, especially questions to ask the interviewer, that you’ve written or shared. I seem to remember you posting job interview advice in the past. This particular job is a position as a supervisor for a summer day camp for kids from immigrant families, but I will likely have interviews for various other types of jobs as well. Either way, thank you for your time!

Thanks for asking this Artistic Bumming, I’ve been meaning to write advice for Autistic job applicants for quite some time! Back in 2022, I put together a lengthy resource on how Autistic people might better practice career discernment, researching potential lines of work, accurately appraising our own skills and weaknesses on the job market, and interviewing other people who have both succeeded and failed at various career paths, to determine which jobs are tenable for us. You can read that full piece here:

Masking to Get a Job (And Choosing When Not To)

Autistic Advice for job interviews.

Written by Devon Price