Autistic and Non-Autistic Participants’ Mean Self-Reported Difficulty Interacting and Communicating on the Social Responsiveness Scale Items as a Function of Reference Group (“According to Non-Autistic People,” “According to Autistic People,” and “I Think”).

<p>Error bars are 99.9% confidence intervals of the means. The higher dashed line indicates a severe level and the lower dashed line indicates a mild to moderate level of difficulty interacting and communicating.