“…The study found that there is a positive and significant association between the symptomatology of autism and the symptoms of depression, concurring with the first Hypothesis 1. The presence of depressive symptoms in adults with ASD has been described in other studies, with similar results (García-Villamisar et al, 2017; Lugo-Marín et al, 2019; Wallace et al, 2016). Various other studies report the existence of a bidirectional link between both symptomatologies (Domes et al, 2016; Uljarević et al, 2019), suggesting, on occasions, that when depressive symptomatology increased or decreased, the symptomatology of ASD symmetrically did so too (Andersen et al, 2015).…”