Looking behind the mask: Social coping strategies of girls on the autistic spectrum

By Siobhan Tierney, J. Burns, Elizabeth Kilbey. 2016

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Friendship motivations, challenges and the role of masking for girls with autism in contrasting school settings (2018, background): “In addition, although in recent years qualitative studies have been published (Cridland et al. 2014; Sedgewick et al. 2016; Tierney, Burns, and Kilbey 2016), they haven’t located girls’ experiences alongside their parents’ and across school setting types.”
Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism (2016, methodology): “Recent studies have alluded to the presence of camouflaging in teenage (Head et al., 2014; Tierney et al., 2016) or even school age years (Hiller et al.”
“Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions (2017, background): “Tierney, Burns, and Kilbey (2016) interviewed ten adolescent girls with ASC about their experiences of camouflaging, and revealed some common themes including the uncertain, exhausting nature of the social environment; the desire to make friends which motivated camouflaging attempts; and using…”