‘A certain magic’ – autistic adults’ experiences of interacting with other autistic people and its relation to Quality of Life: A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis

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Journal article of the type Scientific literature review ( ; english)

George Watts * , Catherine Crompton , Catherine Grainger , Joseph Long , Monique Botha * , Mark Somerville , Eilidh Cage
‘A certain magic’ – autistic adults’ experiences of interacting with other autistic people and its relation to Quality of Life: A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis published in the journal "Autism" Preprint, 15 pages , doi: 10.1177/13623613241255811

*Two co-authors had publicly identified as autistic. [Learn more about this mention]

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Research has suggested that autistic people enjoy spending time with other autistic people and find them easier to talk to. We wanted to find out what autistic people say about spending time with other autistic people and whether this makes their life better. We found 52 papers which described this and reviewed what they found. We found that many autistic people had positive experiences of spending time with other autistic people and these experiences had positive impact on their lives in a range of different ways. The papers did not tell us whether this also happens for autistic people with a learning disability. More research is needed to find out more about why spending time with other autistic people helps some autistic people.

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