ased on our literature reviews, we hypothesized that autistic features (i.e., autistic-like social deficits) would place children and adolescents at a great risk for school and social maladjustment, and that age, gender, and the interaction of both may moderate the effects of autistic symptoms on school and social adjustment. Specifically, we expected that autistic-like social deficits would be associated with poor academic performance, negative attitudes toward schools, more behavioral problems at schools, negative peer relationships, and more problems with peers. In addition, age and gender would moderate the associations between autistic traits and social adjustment problems in school such that these associations would be stronger for males, older children and adolescents or the combination of both.