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Anyone here take the CAT-Q?

Oran G. Utan

I took the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire not long ago, and was surprised to find that against the average of 109 for adult males, my average was 149. So I mask considerably more than the average among us. It's given me a lot to think about in terms of how I behave around other people, how I behave around people I trust and am close to, and how I behave when I'm by myself. I'm curious to find out if there are others among us here who have scored similarly high, or higher.

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  • 78 for me. It's very hard  to make much out of it.  I  probably interact with considerably fewer people than even the average autistic person does. Of those I do interact with ,there is no pressing psychological need  to be other than I am. I'm not sure, however, if that would still be the case if my social network IRL widened.

    I think the need and degree to camouflage/mask is governed by the degree of social interaction that an autistic person has, and depth and width of their social network IRL.

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  • 78 for me. It's very hard  to make much out of it.  I  probably interact with considerably fewer people than even the average autistic person does. Of those I do interact with ,there is no pressing psychological need  to be other than I am. I'm not sure, however, if that would still be the case if my social network IRL widened.

    I think the need and degree to camouflage/mask is governed by the degree of social interaction that an autistic person has, and depth and width of their social network IRL.

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