Autism & Anxiety

The Playful Psychologist

In this weeks episode of The Playful Psychologist, I explore the link between autism and anxiety and why children with autism are more likely to also be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety and autism are obviously separate conditions, but they do interact with each other. Children with autism may be more likely to develop anxiety due to neurological differences int he brain, differences in sensory processing systems and difficulties regulating these, communication difficulties, difficulties accepting and adapting to change, social skill difficulties and isolation, feeling misunderstood by adults and other children, and so on. In this episode, I will break these factors down.