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Apr 12, 2021 · Finally, Pohl et al. (2020) found that autistic mothers were more likely to experience mental ill-health and greater parenting difficulties (such as feeling misunderstood by professionals, struggling with domestic responsibility) compared to non-autistic mothers. While all of this cross-sectional survey research is useful, it does not provide a detailed account of the lived experience of ...
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May 20, 2024 · Autistic mothers may experience significantly more sensitivities through multiple sensory systems. For example, increased auditory (hearing) reactivity can result from the baby crying, noises from ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Autistic mothers remain under-represented in parental and autism research despite the associated physical and psychosocial challenges that accompany the transition to motherhood. Extant literature suggests autistic mothers experience sensory difficulties, communication challenges, stigma, and comorbidities as difficulties, but these studies have focused on autistic women in the perinatal ...
Mar 26, 2024 · Since autistic women are more likely than autistic men to receive a diagnosis during adulthood (Happé et al., 2016), and autism has genetic associations (Frazier et al., 2014; Hallmayer et al., 2011), many mothers of autistic children may be autistic but remain undiagnosed, or they may not receive a diagnosis until their child does (Pohl et al., 2020; Zener, 2019).
Nov 3, 2022 · The autistic groups were significantly younger, less likely to be non-white, had a lower level of education and lower household income, were more likely to have previously been diagnosed with a co-occurring psychiatric condition and had higher Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores than the non-autistic mothers . The groups did not significantly differ in countries, number of children, pregnancy ...
Oct 22, 2024 · Findings from a qualitative study with nine Spanish autistic mothers included that mothers’ autism diagnoses follow the diagnoses of their child(ren), and that sensory sensitivities and anxiety have significant impacts on their parenting experiences. 78 An analysis of reflections on motherhood from a Reddit community for autistic parents identified that autistic mothers perceive their ...
May 20, 2023 · Previous studies have reported that some autistic women may feel judged as mothers. 16 This study describes the bonding experiences of autistic women, providing information that may increase health care professionals’ knowledge of autism and motherhood. Having an awareness of the autistic mothers’ early experiences with bonding may reduce implicit bias that affect how care is provided and ...
