ReviewAutism : the international journal of research and practice2024
A meta-ethnography of autistic people's experiences of social camouflaging and its relationship with mental health.
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- Navigating Mixed-Neurotype Dialogue: Environmental and Affective Influences on Autistic Speakers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Assessing Camouflaging in Adolescence: Psychometric Evaluation of the German Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q/DE).Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Relations Between Social Camouflaging, Life Satisfaction, and Depression Among Polish Women with ADHD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Untangling Sex and Gender Differences in Impression Management and Associated Autism Features in French Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 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
- Large-scale neural network compensation associated with camouflaging in trait autism and its potential mental health costs.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- The impact of autism on the relations between social anxiety, camouflaging, and depression in Taiwanese adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Neurodiversity as an epistemic stress test for psychotherapy and health care: a neuroaffirmative conceptual analysis of relational-proximity priors in clinical, institutional, and AI-supported models.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Reclaiming selfhood: towards a conceptualisation of the autistic unmasking process.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Masking, social context and perceived stress in autistic adults: An ecological momentary assessment study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- 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
- Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Does Not Increase Reports of Camouflaging Behavior in Autistic Adults: Results From an Exploratory Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- The 12-item self-report Questionnaire for Difficulty in Social Communication as a simultaneous prescreening of autism spectrum and social anxiety.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Dynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- What We Know and Do Not Know About Camouflaging, Impression Management, and Mental Health and Wellbeing in Autistic People.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Review
- Camouflaging, internalized stigma, and mental health in the general population.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Double-Edged Effects of Social Strategies on the Well-Being of Autistic People: Impact of Self-Perceived Effort and Efficacy.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
lay abstractSome autistic people describe trying to hide autistic behaviour and seem more neurotypical. Researchers called this 'social camouflaging' and have linked it with mental health difficulties. We used a step-by-step approach to identify research where autistic people talk about social camouflaging to explore the relationship between camouflaging and poor mental health. Thirteen studies were combined. The results describe how society negatively impacts autistic people's mental health, and camouflaging is a way to try and cope with this. Many autistic people find their camouflaging strategies have accidental negative consequences which also affect their mental health. Strategies which seemed 'successful' involved a lot of self-monitoring, were very mentally demanding or were very habitual and seemed to have more of an effect on mental health. This might be important for clinicians who support autistic people with mental health difficulties.
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