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‘I've always been unable to really communicate the extent to which I feel like I know what's going on with my pain’: Investigating Autistic Adults Communication of Pain to Healthcare Professionals

2026-03-28

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<p>Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is a neurodevelopmental condition which affects approximately one percent of the population. ASC is linked closely to multiple psychiatric and physical comorbid conditions. Many of these physical comorbidities are known to cause chronic pain, leading to autistic people seeking help from healthcare professionals (HCPs) for their pain. When communicating pain to HCPs there are vari...

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Literature Corpus work: 6618c3c9-31cc-5859-8021-249c776a4f4e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6c2t5_v1

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