@techreport{kzk97j,
  author = {Gilly, Travis},
  title = {{The Mask Is the Mind: Autistic Performance, Agent Harnesses, and the Failure of the Mimicry Objection}},
  institution = {Real Safety AI Foundation},
  type = {Working Paper},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  note = {Version 2.5},
  url = {https://realsafetyai.org/research/kzk97j/},
  keywords = {AI Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, Functionalism, Autistic Camouflaging, Masking, Symbol Grounding, Embodiment, Disability Studies, Agent Harnesses, Substrate Essentialism, Predictive Processing, Evaluation Awareness, Moral Uncertainty}
}