Response Inhibition in Autistic Children Predicts Positive Psychotic Symptoms in Young Adulthood—Results from an 8-Year Follow-up Study

Contrary to expectations, our results suggest that self-reported positive psychotic symptoms are not elevated in young adults with ASC. Psychotic symptoms remain relatively stable from childhood to young adulthood, although individual differences in symptom change are substantial. Response inhibition is a putative candidate risk marker for the development of positive symptoms in young, autistic adults that awaits further replication in large samples.