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The Cost of Camouflaging Autism
Sarah Cassidy et al. · Molecular Autism, 2018
Research on risk markers for suicidality in autistic adults, including camouflaging.
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Why Many Autistic Girls Are Overlooked
Maia Szalavitz · Scientific American
How diagnostic bias toward boys created a generation of late-diagnosed women.
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Premature Mortality in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Hirvikoski et al. · BJPsych, 2016
A Swedish registry study of mortality; suicide risk estimates differ by intellectual-disability subgroup.
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Sensory Processing in Autism: A Review
Marco et al. · Pediatric Research
What we actually know about how autistic brains process sound, light, and touch.
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The 'Double Empathy Problem': Ten Years On
Damian Milton · Autism, 2022
A decade after coining the term, Milton revisits why communication breakdowns are mutual, not one-sided.
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The Intense World Theory — A Unifying Theory of the Neurobiology of Autism
Kamila Markram, Tania Rinaldi & Henry Markram · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2007
The radical proposal that autism is not a deficit of feeling, but an excess of it.
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Autistic Adults' Experiences of Camouflaging and Its Perceived Impact on Mental Health
Laura Hull et al. · Autism in Adulthood, 2021
First-person accounts of what years of masking cost — and what it means to stop.
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Neurodiversity: An Insider's Perspective
John Elder Robison · Autism, 2009
A short, essential essay on why 'difference, not disability' changed everything.
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