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Those personas can also serve, consciously or unconsciously, as a wall.

“What we set out to do, I don’t know if consciously, was to create characters who are not role models of anything,” says Peirano.

Today, the diagnosis includes children whose autism was previously overlooked because of their propensity for “masking,” the act of consciously or unconsciously suppressing autistic traits in order to blend in.

The diagnostic definition of autism has evolved over the years and now includes children who cope by “masking”: consciously or unconsciously suppressing autistic traits in order to fit in at school or in social environments.

According to Mr. Chapman, Heritage consciously decided to alter its mission.