The experience of stigma by autistic people is relatively understudied, despite contributing to
a range of poor outcomes and having an overarching impact on well-being. The current�…

Social performances pervade human interactions. Some autistic people describe their social
performances as 'camouflaging'and engage in these performances to mitigate social�…

This paper presents the concepts of “neurodiversity” and the “neurodiversity approaches”
towards disability and discusses how confusion regarding the meaning of these concepts�…

Effective information transfer requires social communication skills. As autism is clinically
defined by social communication deficits, it may be expected that information transfer�…

This article proposes a link between autistic people being misperceived by the neurotypical
majority and their being at risk of poor mental health and well‐being. We present a�…

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

Differences in social communication and interaction styles between autistic and typically
developing have been studied in isolation and not in the context of real-world social�…

The Double Empathy Problem suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and
non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differences in communicative style and a�…

Background Deciding to disclose a diagnosis of autism to others can be a major decision for
people with autism and their families. This scoping review summarizes existing literature�…

Social cognition, social skill, and social motivation have been extensively researched and
characterized as atypical in autistic people, with the assumption that each mechanistically�…