We have an animated documentary about neurodiversity. You have a room full of people. Let’s put the two together. It’s called Invisible Differences. On 2 October, its story took Mary Schaus and Joanna Bowers to the TEDxTinHau Women stage. Now we want to...
The 2026 Policy Address, delivered on 16 September, runs to nine chapters, and its neurodiversity measures are only a small part of it. Most of it is about the first Five-Year Plan, the Northern Metropolis and Hong Kong’s role as an international hub. If...
Reasonable accommodation in Hong Kong isn’t a nice-to-have. Under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance (DDO), you can’t refuse to hire, promote or keep an employee with a disability because they need adjustments to do the job, unless those adjustments would cause...
Autistic masking in the workplace is more common than most employers realise. It means hiding neurodivergent traits to get through the workday — and according to research, it’s costing autistic employees their health. A 2023 qualitative study by Pryke-Hobbes et...
A 2025 study led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong found that 2.57% of children and youths aged 6 to 17 in Hong Kong are autistic — a rate similar to the US, UK, and Australia. Autism isn’t rare here. It’s underdiagnosed. Hong Kong’s Census and...
Most people picture a wheelchair when they hear the word “disability.” But hidden disability in Hong Kong is far more common than that image suggests — and far less understood. A significant number of disabilities are invisible. You can’t see them....
