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The pattern repeats across tech: Amazon's "Leadership Principles" include "Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit" yet the New York Times documented (2015) employees crying at their desks. Facebook champions "Be Bold" while whistleblower Frances Haugen testified to Congress (2021) about internal suppression of safety concerns.
### Personal Experience
I experienced this firsthand. I worked for a search API company that proudly championed neurodiversity—it was all over their hiring materials, their company values. They knew about my schizoaffective disorder when they hired me. They said they valued different types of minds.
Then I had an actual episode. Made an embarrassing, disturbing comment on GitHub during a manic phase—clearly unwell, clearly delusional. Within 24 hours, I was fired. No discussion of accommodation. No recognition that this was literally the neurodivergence they claimed to value. Just gone.