Interest in social camouflaging has led to a multiplicity of measurement methods of uncertain
validity. This two‐part investigation first used a systematic review (“Study 1”) to identify and�…

Autism is more frequently diagnosed in males, with evidence suggesting that females are
more likely to be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. Possibly, the male/female ratio�…

Abstract The Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) is an instrument recently
developed and validated in English for measuring social camouflaging. While increasing�…

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 Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by social
communication challenges and repetitive behaviors that may be quickly detected by experts�…

We hypothesized that autistic adults may be erroneously judged as deceptive or lacking
credibility due to demonstrating unexpected and atypical behaviors. Thirty autistic and 29�…

Background There is inconsistent evidence for a clear pattern of association between
'camouflaging'(strategies used to mask and/or compensate for autism characteristics during�…

Objectives Some autistic people “camouflage” their differences by modeling neurotypical
behaviors to survive in a neurotypical-dominant social world. It remains elusive whether�…

This study investigated the association of the five-factor model and trait emotional
intelligence (trait EI) with camouflaging behaviours (masking and compensating for autistic�…

Background Increasing attention is being paid to the higher prevalence of boys with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to the implications of this ratio discrepancy on our�…