Does having a high IQ help you when you're autistic...or does it complicate things? Here are 5 reasons why being "smart" can actually hide autism, why this causes problems, and how to improve things for younger generations

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1. Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy (Steph Jones): https://amzn.to/3v3Axyr
2. Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism (2016): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...
3. "Putting on my best normal": Social camouflaging in adults with ASD (2017): https://link.springer.com/article/10....
4. Profiles and academic trajectories in cognitively gifted children with autism (2019): https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318804019
5. Twice exceptional children: https://childmind.org/article/twice-e...
6. Combination of autism and exceptional cognitive ability is associated with suicidal ideation (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2022.10...
7. Autism spectrum disorder and school bullying (2019): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
8. Different associations between intelligence and social cognition in children with and without autism spectrum disorders (2020): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
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