ArticleScientific reports2025
Narrative identity differences in autism.
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- "Who I am": understanding the self-identity process of autism in adults in the UK.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- The Concept of Autism in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: Historical Divergence and Phenomenological Rapprochement.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Review
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Abstract
Autism is characterized by a modification of the sense of self, particularly self-continuity. While former studies focused on the recollection and narrative of single past events, the present study aimed to explore autistic individuals' narrative identity by assessing for the first time their life story, described as the most integrated form of personal narrative and the closest to the self. A comparison of the narrative coherence of autistic individuals' life stories (n = 22) with those of nonautistic participants (n = 22) revealed that global coherence, particularly causal-motivational coherence, was lower in the life narratives of autistic individuals. Additionally, typical narrative beginnings at birth and elaborated endings were less frequent in autistic individuals. In comparison with the nonautistic group, the autism group included personal events in their life narratives that were self-rated as more negative and associated with negative feelings at retrieval, along with having lower life impacts. The present study provides evidence for a different narrative identity in autism. We discussed how this effect could be related to variations in narrative coherence and temporal framework, possibly influenced by differences in others' perspective-taking.
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