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📖 READ MORE:
1. Camouflage and masking behavior in adult autism (2023)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10060524/
2. "Masking is life": Experiences of masking in autistic and nonautistic adults (2021)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8992921/
3. 'I was exhausted trying to figure it out': The experiences of females receiving an autism diagnosis (2020)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31144507/
4. Gender differences in self-reported camouflaging in autistic and non-autistic adults (2019)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361319864804
5. 'Putting on my best normal': Social camouflaging in adults with autism spectrum conditions (2017)
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-017-3166-…
6. Experiences of autism acceptance and mental health in autistic adults (2017)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5807490/


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