The impact of autism on the relations between social anxiety, camouflaging, and depression in Taiwanese adolescents

The findings highlight the complex inter-relations among camouflaging, social anxiety, and depression, which may differ between autistic and non-autistic adolescents in Taiwan. Camouflaging may serve different functional roles and have different mental health implications for autistic and non-autistic adolescents. Future research should focus on teasing apart the complex conceptual, measurement, and causal mechanisms underlying the inter-relations between social anxiety and camouflaging in autistic versus non-autistic people.