Informant-Reports for Women High in Autism Spectrum TraitsAdultAutism spectrumFemalePhenotypeSelf-reportJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - There is uncertainty among researchers and clinicians about how to best measure autism spectrum dimensional traits in adults. In a sample of adults......
Masking is when someone suppresses or covers up autism traits in order to "fit in" better with those around them. Examples of this include imitating the way others speak or carry themselves, and practicing statements before saying them. Autistic people with low support needs are often better abl...
Can adult women be diagnosed with Autism later in life, too? Yes, adults can be diagnosed with Autism later in life. In fact, it’s not common for adults to look back at their childhood and realize certain behaviors were Autistic traits. ...
A high prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is reported in children born extremely preterm (EP), but an even larger proportion of survivors are affected by subclinical difficulties than meet diagnostic criteria. The aims of this study were to investigate autistic traits associated with the broader ...
Also, autism traits seem to affect quality of life indirectly through the mediation of feelings of competence, with the latter conceptualized here as feeling one has skills to make effective choices that lead to achieving expected and valued outcomes (Andrews et al., 2023). Thus, increased ...
Research on ASD and providing referrals to specialists for women who experience social difficulties and suffer from complex mental disorders (such as ADHD or depression), even if they do not exhibit typical autistic traits, are therefore crucial (Ochoa-Lubinoff et al., 2023). One suspected cause...
in the visual ‘cultural genitals’ [19]. Freud saw nature as masculine and coined the phrase “anatomy is destiny” [20], that can be summed up as - one’s gender determines one’s main personality traits. Nevertheless, with the rise of the feminism, the Freudian father-centred theory...
We investigated differences in visual attention during activity monitoring in children and adult participants with autism compared to a control group of participants without autism. Methods Eye movements of participants with autism (n = 122; mean age [SD] = 14.5 [8.0] years) and ...
information about their socio-demographic background such as current age, sex, ethnicity, relationship status, living status, education level, employment status, household income, and the presence of additional mental health conditions. Participants’ level of autistic personality traits was al...
traits observed in EP populations. A study by Eryigit-Madzwamuse et al. [17] reported higher BAP scores in their adult cohort born very preterm (< 32 weeks’ gestation)/very low birth weight (< 1500 g) in comparison with term-born controls. However, to the authors’ knowledge, no...