Camouflaging in Autism: Relations to Sex, Gender, and Age of Diagnosis

We examined interrelations among sex, gender, camouflaging, and diagnostic timing within late-diagnosed autistic adults. Females were diagnosed earlier and camouflaged more. Sex moderated the relation between camouflaging and diagnostic timing (positive for males, negative for females), as did gender (positive for cismen, negative for transgender+gender expansive, and unrelated for women).