Autistic people may camouflage their innate autistic social behaviours to adapt to, cope
within and/or influence the predominately neurotypical social landscape. This study�…

Camouflaging involves masking and/or compensating for autistic characteristics and has
been identified in autistic individuals through a variety of different methods. Individual�…

Camouflaging of autistic traits may make autism harder to diagnose. The current study
evaluated the relations between camouflaging intent, first impressions, and age of autism�…

Autobiographical descriptions and clinician observations suggest that some individuals with
autism, particularly females,'camouflage'their social communication difficulties, which may�…

Camouflaging may be characterized as a set of actions and strategies more or less
consciously adopted by some autistic people to navigate the neurotypical social world�…

Autistic people face a difficult dilemma around whether or not to disclose their diagnosis
because autistic people are a stigmatized social group. The central aim of this study was to�…

There currently exist no self-report measures of social camouflaging behaviours (strategies
used to compensate for or mask autistic characteristics during social interactions). The�…

This study investigated sex/gender differences in camouflaging with children and
adolescents (N= 84) with and without an autism diagnosis/increased levels of autistic traits�…

Background Autistic people face dilemmas regarding whether to disclose their autism due to
the potential negative consequences. While there have been studies examining the issue of�…

Background: Masking involves blending in or covering a stigmatized identity, to avoid
discrimination and to “pass” within society. Autistic people often report masking, both�…