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* In a [[Real Life]] incident described in ''[[Charles and Emma]],'' the young Charles Darwin passed as a devout Unitarian, and his father urged to him to do so even with his fiancée/wife. He eventually decided to out himself to her, and eventually, of course, to the rest of the world.

=== Live Action TV ===

=== Live-Action TV ===

* One episode of ''[[Law ~~and~~ Order Special Victims Unit]]'' featured an autistic guy who somehow managed to convince everybody (including his own ''mother''!) that he was neurotypical.

* One episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' featured an autistic guy who somehow managed to convince everybody (including his own ''mother''!) that he was neurotypical.

* An episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' inverted the SVU example above, with Elliot's brother having spent ''years'' posing as mentally retarded due to a head injury as a child to get out of having to support himself. He's outed only after Jack's foolishness causes a [[Rant-Inducing Slight]].

* Also inverted in an episode of ''[[The Mentalist]].''

=== ~~Webcomics~~ ===

=== Web Comics ===

* As part of the general [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] aspect of "the transgenic community" in ''[[Skin Horse]]'', Artie, a transgenic gerbil who looks like an ordinary human and works as a school teacher, is considered a "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120513075646/http://skin-horse.com/comics/05072011/ passer]".

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=== Real Life ===

* Recently, a young autistic man managed to fool people into believing not only that he was neurotypical, but that he was a rich, young executive planning to buy their company. Apparently due to his autism he didn't have any of the physical signatures associated with lying.

* Recently{{when}}, a young autistic man managed to fool people into believing not only that he was neurotypical, but that he was a rich, young executive planning to buy their company. Apparently due to his autism he didn't have any of the physical signatures associated with lying.

** Autistic people in general try to pass for normal as much as possible if they can, which often means they are reluctant to get assistance with the things they have difficulty with.

** Also, since autism is a spectrum, many people on the mild end of the spectrum appear neurotypical during casual social interaction, without any intentional deception being required.

* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Many people knew that he couldn't walk, particularly the press and White House staff, but publicly he worked hard to conceal his disability. For example, he had a customized car made that he could drive with his hands.<ref>This before power steering, power brakes and automatic transmissions, so it was far from the relatively simple one-lever-for-gas-and-brake affair seen today and required a great deal of strength to operate.</ref> He painted his leg braces black and nearly all of his photos show him either sitting in a regular chair or leaning on somebody or something. (There is only one photo of him in his wheelchair.) In films that show him "walking", he's always surrounded by people so he could hide the fact that he was using them for support.

* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Many people knew that he couldn't walk, particularly the press and White House staff, but publicly he worked hard to conceal his disability. For example, he had a customized car made that he could drive solely with his hands.<ref>This before power steering, power brakes and automatic transmissions, so it was far from the relatively simple one-lever-for-gas-and-brake affair seen today and required a great deal of strength to operate.</ref> He painted his leg braces black and nearly all of his photos show him either sitting in a regular chair or leaning on somebody or something. (There is only one photo of him in his wheelchair.) In films that show him "walking", he's always surrounded by people so he could hide the fact that he was using them for support.

* ''[[True Life]]'' examined people who were trying to avoid this for various reasons. One person highlighted was a transgender woman who passed so well nobody knew (because for all intents and purposes she had lived as a woman since she was a child), and had to tell her boyfriend. There was some humor, when she was in a club and a man was dancing with her and she became...aroused. Another person profiled was a biracial (black and white) girl passing...as Nicaraguan. She was too dark to pass for white, so she went for Latina instead. This caused problems when her friend set her up on a date with an actual Nicaraguan.