Self-reported camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions.

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Camouflaging can be thought of as the process through which autistic people modify their natural social behaviours to adapt to, cope within or influence the largely neurotypical (non-autistic) social world. Many autistic people experience negative reactions to their natural or intuitive social behaviours when interacting with non-autistic people. Over time, in response to these negative reactions, autistic people's social behaviour often changes. We refer to autistic people's changed behaviours as 'camouflaging behaviours'. Research exploring camouflaging behaviours is still at an early stage. This study investigated camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults in everyday social interactions using a research method that was new to the field of autism. Specifically,

SUBMITTER: Cook J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8814950 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature