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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2025

Self-reported masking in sexual minority and heterosexual autistic adults.

Goldie A McQuaid, Nancy Raitano Lee, Gregory L Wallace

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Goldie A McQuaidGeorge Mason University, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3614-616X
Nancy Raitano LeeDrexel University, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6663-0713
Gregory L WallaceThe George Washington University, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0329-5054

Funding

Emotion processing, gender identity, and differential risk for anxiety and depression in autistic adultsK01MH129622 · NIMH · GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY · PI Goldie Ann McQuaid · 2022 to 2026
$780k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH129622
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Masking can include suppressing or concealing certain behaviors to appear "non-autistic" and is one response to the excess social stressors of being a neurominority in a neurotypical-majority society. It is important to understand how persons who are multiply marginalized (e.g. an autistic person assigned female sex at birth who is bisexual), who experience multiple layers of excess social stressors, may face additional pressures to conceal their authentic selves. Autistic persons may be more likely than neurotypical persons to identify with a sexual minority orientation, such as asexual, bisexual, gay or pansexual. To advance our understanding of how marginalized identities may be associated with masking, we examined self-reported masking using the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire in a sample of autistic adults (

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Autistic DisorderHeterosexualitySexual and Gender MinoritiesAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSelf ReportSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adultautismmaskingminority stresssexual minority

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PMID40304097
PMCPMC12263329

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