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Triple-Masking and Mental Health: A Study of the Burden of Identity Management for Autistic LGBTQ+ Christians in Conservative Church Settings Using a Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Design

2025-11-14

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The simultaneous management of multiple stigmatized identities—autistic, LGBTQ+, and religious—presents an acute form of psychological strain. This article introduces and empirically validates the construct of Triple-Masking: the concurrent concealment of neurotype, sexual/gender identity, and theological doubt by autistic LGBTQ + individuals within conservative Christian settings. Usin...

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Literature Corpus work: 6e38e7f9-1c94-5ce1-adb2-dba05c9dea4b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8100975/v1

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