higher IQ, who are more fully integrated in society, have greater awareness of their difficulties, as well as facing constant challenges in coping with the social, sensory and other demands of daily life. Accounts by higher ability autistic adults confirm that many feel under intense pressure to ...
The objective of this research is to study, via a qualitative and exploratory approach, the coping strategies used by adults with autism and with no intellectual impairment. Semi-directive interviews were carried out with 31 adults diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome or high-functioning autism (HFA)...
Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages is 'optimism bias', where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. Ev... G Beattie,M Marselle,L Mcguire,... - ...
Relative excesses in gray matter volume in adults with ASD compared with control participants are displayed in orange/red for temporal cluster and frontal cluster; deficits are displayed in blue for occipital cluster. The maps are oriented with the left side of the brain shown on the left side ...
I would like to end with a notion that a gender curiosity, “fantasy that one can change one’s gender on demand” [75] sometimes is just that; and at least for some, this fantasy is better than reality of gender reassignment. Knowing that may open our minds to more sensitive and ...
These experiences helped people grow and change over time in ways they appreciated. That’s something great about this fandom that makes it so easy for people with autism to get into it. It’s very accepting, and, like, it’s chill with whoever you are and whatever you like. It’s lik...
Change I’m in the middle of reading Luke Beardon’s new book, “Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults” and I’ve paused to splurge this. I am frantically typing because I want to get back to it, but didn’t want to lose my train of thought. I’m on the chapter about autistic...
Future research is warranted to explore the intentionality with which these camouflaging or compensatory behaviors are deployed—perhaps using self-report questionnaires, which have not yet been validated for children but have been used with adults. Interestingly, the results reported here could also be...
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and expressive suppression. The capacity of a person to consciously change their thoughts, beliefs and feelings when presented with an emotional event is known as cognitive reappraisal. Expressive suppression is a measure of a maladaptive coping strategy where a person suppresses their emotions. Alpha ...