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Autistic people's preferences and expectations at work can be radically different from those of non-autistic people. In the general population, motivating factors at work are based on salary and bonuses , the prospect of promotion supported by the symbolism of power , and social benefits in terms of leisure and festive encounters. [ 187 ]
Autistic people appear to have a local bias for visual information processing, that is, a preference for processing local features (details, parts) rather than global features (the whole). [34] One explanation for this local bias is that people with autism do not have the normal global precedence when looking at objects and scenes ...
Engaging in special interests can bring autistic people great joy [25] [26] and many autistic people spend large amounts of time engaged in their special interest. [27] In adults, engaging with special interests has been shown to have positive outcomes for mental health, [28] self-esteem, [29] and can be used to manage stress.
In particular, autistic people have anecdotally identified patterns of factors that lead to burnout. [136] Autistic people can also derive support from community members by sharing mitigating and coping strategies. [137] This community factor is a reason that community psychology is used to study autistic communities. [138]
Higher rates of self-injury are noted in socially isolated autistic people. Studies have shown that a lack of socialization skills are related factors to self-injurious behavior for autistic people. [91] Self-injury could be a response to modulate pain perception when chronic pain or other health problems that cause pain are present. [90]: 12–13
Natural Remedies For ADHD 1. Make lists. Some people with ADHD can feel overwhelmed by the enormity of a task ahead of them, but breaking it into smaller chunks makes life's responsibilities seem ...
A systematic review published in 2024 found that most autistic people have good interpersonal relations and social-communication experiences with most autistic people, and interactions between autistic people are associated with better quality of life across multiple domains, including mental health and emotional well-being. [142]
[14] [192] [15] People with ADHD appear to have unimpaired long-term memory, and deficits in long-term recall appear to be attributed to impairments in working memory. [206] Due to the rates of brain maturation and the increasing demands for executive control as a person gets older, ADHD impairments may not fully manifest themselves until ...