The relationship between camouflaging and mental health: Are there differences among subgroups in autistic adults?

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Lay abstract

When autistic people use strategies to hide their autistic characteristics, we call this camouflaging. Autistic adults suggested that camouflaging can result in mental health difficulties. That is, people who report to camouflage also report mental health difficulties. However, since there are many differences between autistic people, this relationship may also differ between subgroups. Therefore, in this study we investigated whether camouflaging and mental health difficulties are related and whether this relationship is equal for all autistic adults. For this study, 352 autistic adults aged 30-84 years filled in the Dutch Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire to measure camouflaging and the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised to measure mental health difficulties. We f

SUBMITTER: van der Putten WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10981194 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature