Rates of depression are elevated in autistic and/or ADHD adolescents, but the reasons for this are unclear. We have previously shown that autistic and/or ADHD adolescents experience twice the school-related emotional burden of the non-ADHD/non-autistic control peers. Using a new self-report measure, the My Emotional Responses in School Inventory (MERSI), we now examine how autistic and/or ADHD students’ responses after being upset-often pathologised as “emotional dysregulation”-are associated…
