High Autistic Traits or Low Social Competence? Correlates of Social Camouflaging in Non-Autistic Adults

Undergraduates never diagnosed with autism also camouflage, and the more they did, the more distress they reported.

O'Loghlen, J. J. & Lang, C. P. (2024). High Autistic Traits or Low Social Competence? Correlates of Social Camouflaging in Non-Autistic Adults. Autism in Adulthood, 6(1), 60–71.

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Journal article

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doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0094

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Against the abstract, 15 September 2026

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284 non-autistic undergraduates reported social camouflaging, and more camouflaging went with more psychological distress. Week 6 includes these accounts alongside those of autistic participants when introducing the ledger. It does not adopt the paper’s framing of competence.