Background: Research examining attitudes toward autistic adults has relied on explicit self-
report measures, which may be susceptible to socially desirable responding. Because�…

Background: Autistic adults receive unfavorable first impressions from typically developing
(TD) adults, but these impressions improve when TD adults are made aware of their�…

Previous work indicates that first impressions of autistic adults are more favorable when
neurotypical raters know their clinical diagnosis and have high understanding about autism�…

Background: Social communication difficulties are a clinical characteristic of autism, but
social interactions are reciprocal in nature and autistic individuals' social abilities may not be�…

Non-autistic adults often hold explicit and implicit biases toward autism that contribute to
personal and professional challenges for autistic people. Although previous research�…

Autism stereotypes can often portray autistic people in a negative way. However, few studies
have looked at how autistic people think they are perceived by others, and none have�…

This systematic review includes a narrative synthesis and meta‐analysis of research on the
associations between primarily non‐autistic people's characteristics and their attitudes�…

Prior research has shown that less favourable first impressions are formed of autistic adults
by non‐autistic observers. Autistic females may present differently to autistic males and�…

Autistic and non-autistic adults' agreement with scientific knowledge about autism, how they
define autism, and their endorsement of stigmatizing conceptions of autism has not�…

Many of the personality and behavioral traits (eg, social imperviousness, directness in
conversation, lack of imagination, affinity for solitude, difficulty displaying emotions) that are�…