Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a lifetime.

Individuals with autism may try to appear more “neurotypical” to protect themselves, but this often comes at a great cost to their mental health. “Autistic masking” or camouflaging refers to the ...

Masking is a strategy that some autistic folks use to appear non-autistic and be more accepted in society. Researchers are just now beginning to explore masking in autism, so it is hard to say how ...

Medical professionals have learned a great deal about autism over the years, but there is still a lot unknown. Autism can be explained medically as a bio-neurological development disability, but to ...

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Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived - or "pass" - as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...