ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2021
Camouflaging in an everyday social context: An interpersonal recall study.
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- A meta-analytic review of quantification methods for camouflaging behaviors in autistic and neurotypical individuals.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Is There a Bias Towards Males in the Diagnosis of Autism? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
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- Unmasking: A Mixed-Methods Study of Autistic College Students' Efforts to Stop Masking/Camouflaging.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Camouflaging and autism: Conceptualisation and methodological issues.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Review
- A novel context-discrepancy assessment of impression management facets in autistic and non-autistic adults: an initial validation.Molecular autism · 2026Article
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- Intentional use and self-efficacy as distinct facets of impression management and their relationships with socio-motivational, cognitive, and mental health factors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Autism traits and mental well-being: the mediating role of social camouflaging and the moderating role of social exclusion and public stigma.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Stigma Management Strategies of Autistic Social Media Users.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- The associations between self-rated autistic traits, social camouflaging, and mental health outcomes in Taiwanese anime, comics and games (ACG) doujin creators: an exploratory study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- A meta-ethnography of autistic people's experiences of social camouflaging and its relationship with mental health.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Review
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- High Autistic Traits or Low Social Competence? Correlates of Social Camouflaging in Non-Autistic Adults.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
- 'Struggling to appear normal': a moderated mediational analysis of empathy and camouflaging in the association between autistic traits and depressive symptoms.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Autism and the Case Against Job Interviews.Neuroethics · 2024Article
- Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
lay abstractMany autistic people report that, despite personal costs, they use strategies to hide their autistic characteristics or appear non-autistic at work, school or university, when speaking with health professionals, or while socialising with certain friends and family members. These strategies are often referred to as camouflaging. This study explores camouflaging during everyday social interactions. A total of 17 autistic adults were filmed taking part in a common everyday social situation - a conversation with a stranger. They then watched the video of this conversation with a researcher and answered questions about camouflaging. These autistic people told us that they (1) had a strong desire to socialise with and be valued by other people but, because of negative past experiences, they often felt unsure about their ability to do so; (2) used camouflaging to help them to socialise and be valued by others; (3) experienced negative consequences when camouflaging (e.g. fatigue, anxiety and difficulties in friendships); and (4) sometimes socialised in more autistic ways instead of camouflaging. This study shows us how autistic people often change their behaviour because of the way they are treated by nonautistic people and that autistic people may benefit from programmes that help them to socialise in more authentically autistic ways, but only if their autistic social behaviour is met with understanding and acceptance from non-autistic people.
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