In the current age of neurodivergent awareness, it is important to monitor the effect advocacy and representation have on the public. While invisible disabilities such as mental health disorders receive the most attention, intellectual disabilities are rarely discussed. How impactful has the neurodivergent awareness movement been for intellectually disabled individuals? Has this movement affected all genders equally? This study examines college students' biases related to gender, social factors, and treatment toward an individual with an undisclosed intellectual disability. Three surveys, adapted from Scior & Furnham (2011), were administered to students at Keene State College to evaluate their ability to identify traits of intellectual disability, their perceptions of the causes of such behaviors, how these behaviors can be managed, and their level of social comfort with intellectually disabled individuals. Significant differences in attitudes towards the prompt character were found between groups that correctly identified an intellectual disability versus those that did not.
