People radically differ in how they cope with uncertainty. Clinical researchers describe a
dispositional characteristic known as “intolerance of uncertainty”, a tendency to find …

Autism impacts a wide range of behaviors and neural functions. As such, theories of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) are numerous and span different levels of description, from …

Characterizations of autism include multiple references to rigid or inflexible features, but the
notion of rigidity itself has received little systematic discussion. In this paper we shed some …

Autistic girls and women experience more mental health difficulties and poorer well-being
than their non-autistic peers. Little emphasis has been placed on the perspectives of the …

Gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at) is an under-researched phenomenon in autistic
people, yet can have a significant impact on autistic people's quality of life. A narrative …

Emotions shape how people understand and interact with others. Here, we review evidence
on the relationship between anxiety—a future-oriented emotion characterized by negative …

Research suggests that sensorimotor difficulties in autism could be reduced by providing
individuals with explicit contextual information. To test this, we examined autistic visuomotor …

Background Socio-emotional impairments are among the diagnostic criteria for autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), but the actual knowledge has substantiated both altered and intact …

Little attention has been given to the voice of autistic individuals during the development of
theories that are trying to explain the condition. This can often make individuals feel that they …

Insistence on Sameness has been pathologized as a subtype of restricted, repetitive
patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, in autism. We examined the meanings of …