Links between self-injury and suicidality in autism

Abstract Background Autistic individuals without intellectual disability are at heightened risk of self-injury, and appear to engage in it for similar reasons as non-autistic people. A wide divergence of autistic perspectives on self-injury, including those who frame it as a helpful coping mechanism...

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Main Authors: R. L. Moseley, N. J. Gregory, P. Smith, C. Allison, S. Baron-Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:Molecular Autism
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-0319-8