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AUTISM

The free trial subscription is a ‘tax’ on the neurodiverse

Money is pretty important in this world of ours, and generally speaking autistic people find it difficult to secure and keep it, for a variety of reasons. We often, in tongue-in-cheek moments, refer to the ways that autistic people or those with ADHD lose money hand over fist as the ‘neurodivergent tax’, mostly because it feels like a pretty universal experience and appears to be totally unavoidable.

Let’s take a moment to look at a particularly clear and painful example of this very

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