Table 2.
Participant characteristics, including current age, age of autism diagnosis, total and factor-level scores on the AQ-Short, age when autism was first considered, and time between first consideration of autism and formal autism diagnosis.
| Male |
Female |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Current age, years (n = 1211) | 43.3 | 17.4 | 41.3 | 13.7 | 42.3 | 15.6 |
| Age of autism diagnosis, years (n = 1104) | 32.1 | 19.8 | 31.9 | 15.4 | 32.0 | 17.6 |
| AQ-Short total score (n = 1050) | 82.9 | 11.5 | 83.6 | 10.5 | 83.3 | 10.9 |
| Social skills | 21.2 | 4.1 | 21.7 | 3.6 | 21.5 | 3.8 |
| Routine | 12.1 | 2.4 | 12.7 | 2.2 | 12.4 | 2.3 |
| Switching | 13.1 | 2.2 | 13.2 | 2.1 | 13.2 | 2.2 |
| Imagination | 22.9 | 4.4 | 22.9 | 4.5 | 22.9 | 4.4 |
| Numbers and patterns | 13.7 | 3.8 | 13.1 | 3.9 | 13.4 | 3.8 |
| Social behaviour | 60.5 | 8.4 | 61.7 | 7.6 | 61.2 | 7.9 |
| Age when autism was first considered, years (n = 1042) | 27.4 | 20.3 | 29.0 | 16.7 | 28.2 | 18.5 |
| Time between first consideration and formal autism diagnosis, years (n = 1011) | 4.2 | 9.0 | 3.3 | 6.9 | 3.7 | 8.0 |