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Gender Differences in Peer Influence on Autistic Traits in Special Needs Schools—Evidence From Staff Reports

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Children and adolescents with an intellectual disability (ID) and autistic traits often attend special needs schools where they are surrounded by peers with diverse characteristics.
Gina Nenniger, Verena Hofmann, Christoph M. Müller   +2 more
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The longitudinal bidirectional relationship between autistic traits and brain morphology from childhood to adolescence: a population-based cohort study

Molecular Autism, 2022
Objective Autistic traits are associated with alterations in brain morphology. However, the anatomic location of these differences and their developmental trajectories are unclear.
Melisa Durkut, Elisabet Blok, Anna Suleri, Tonya White   +3 more
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No evidence that autistic traits predict programming learning outcomes

Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022
With the increased importance of computer programming in society, researchers have been searching for ways to predict which students are most likely to succeed, as well as those who may have difficulty when beginning to learn to program.
Irene L. Graafsma, Eva Marinus, Serje Robidoux, Lyndsey Nickels, Nathan Caruana   +4 more
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Negative first impression judgements of autistic children by non-autistic adults

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionAlthough autism inclusion and acceptance has increased in recent years, autistic people continue to face stigmatization, exclusion, and victimization.
Troy Q. Boucher, Julia N. Lukacs, Nichole E. Scheerer, Grace Iarocci   +3 more
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No effects of siblings and twin testosterone transfer on autistic traits

JCPP Advances, 2022
Background Having twin and non‐twin siblings might influence autistic traits both prenatally and postnatally. The twin testosterone transfer hypothesis suggests that girls with a twin brother are exposed to higher levels of prenatal testosterone than ...
Melanie M. deWit, Sander Begeer, Michel G. Nivard, Elsje vanBergen   +3 more
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Central Sensitivity Symptoms and Autistic Traits in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults. [PDF]

Autism Res
ABSTRACT Central sensitivity syndromes (CSSs) are a group of health conditions thought to include an underlying sensitisation of the central nervous system. Evidence suggests autistic adults experience poorer physical health than the general population and are more likely to have a CSS.
Grant S, Norton S, Hoekstra RA.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Are autistic traits in the general population stable across development? [PDF]

, 2011
There is accumulating evidence that autistic traits (AT) are on a continuum in the general population, with clinical autism representing the extreme end of a quantitative distribution.
A Esbensen, A Ronald, A Ronald, A Ronald, A Ronald, A Ronald, AJO Whitehouse, AJO Whitehouse, AJO Whitehouse, AJO Whitehouse, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, Angela Sirigu, Angelica Ronald, B Auyeung, C Allison, CL Smith, D Wolke, DH Skuse, DM Sikora, DVM Bishop, DVM Bishop, E Billstedt, E Honey, EB Robinson, EJ Austin, F Happé, F Happé, J Jacobson, J Matson, J Mesman, J Richler, JN Constantino, JN Constantino, JP Newnham, L Edelson, LC Eaves, M Bartels, Martha Hickey, MB Posserud, ML Cuccaro, P Howlin, R Plomin, RA Hoekstra, RE Tremblay, S Baron-Cohen, S Hartley, S Leekam, SB Campbell, SJ Spieker, T Charman, TM Achenbach, WP Mandy   +51 more
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Sex differences in predictors and outcomes of camouflaging: Comparing diagnosed autistic, high autistic trait and low autistic trait young adults

Autism, 2022
Many autistic individuals camouflage socially atypical behaviours. Evidence suggests autistic females camouflage more than autistic males. Although camouflaging may confer some benefits, it is also associated with negative outcomes including poorer mental health and well-being.
Milner, V, Mandy, W, Happé, F, Colvert, E   +3 more
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Power and Autistic Traits [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Autistic traits can help people gain and sustain power, and has probably done so throughout history, says the present paper. A number of testable claims follow from this assumption. First, the powerful should have more autistic traits than others - which they do appear to have.
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Autistic Traits in Treatment-Seeking Transgender Adults [PDF]

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The present study aimed to compare prevalence of autistic traits measured by the self-reported autism spectrum quotient-short (AQ-short) in a transgender clinical population (n = 656) matched by age and sex assigned at birth to a cisgender community sample.
Nobili, Anna, Glazebrook, Cris, Bouman, Walter Pierre, Glidden, Derek, Baron-Cohen, Simon, Allison, Carrie, Smith, Paula, Arcelus, Jon   +7 more
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