Dealing with bias at work due to MS make it even more challenging.

And there lies the challenge. You want to share enough of your diagnosis that others around you understand why you've been struggling.

But once you do share, you risk intentional or unintentional bias coming into play.

It's hard to get people to understand those challenges you faced while getting diagnosed and the treatment started do get better. And once they do, you can manage to do most of what you did before, and the other things, you find new ways to get them done.

Yet, people still have their bias, and it shows, a lot.

Sometimes I want to say "hey, your bias is showing, could you zip it back up."

No one will admit the bias. Some don't know it's there.

But for those affected, we see it.

There's a name for it, it's called the pygmalion effect.

It's also illegal in the workplace, whether intentional or not.

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