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ArticleAutism in adulthood2021

Autistic Adults' Experiences of Camouflaging and Its Perceived Impact on Mental Health.

Louise Bradley, Rebecca Shaw, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sarah Cassidy

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Article in Autism in adulthood, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
92citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
13.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Autistic Traits and Camouflaging: A Meta-Analysis.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Louise BradleyInternational Centre, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4136-8816
Rebecca ShawCoventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Simon Baron-CohenAutism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Sarah CassidySchool of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-3034
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust · GBUniversity of Bedfordshire · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Nottingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lay summary:

Indexed as

autismcamouflagingexperiencesmaskingmental healthqualitative research

Identifiers

PMID36601637
PMCPMC8992917
OpenAlexW3170765972

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Registered trials

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