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Parents reported ASC diagnosis at ages 5-11 and whether their child had been excluded at ages 11-14. Internalising and externalising symptoms were self-reported by adolescents at age 17 on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Confounders were mapped onto a Directed Acyclic Graph. Causal mediation analyses, using the g-formula for randomised interventional analogues, estimated direct and indirect effects while accounting for these confounders without biasing the causal pathway.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Autism was associated with higher internalising and externalising scores, with autistic adolescents more likely to experience school exclusion than peers. School exclusion partially mediated the association between ASC and externalising symptoms (indirect effect\u2009= 0.03 (95% CI: 0.004, 0.06, p\u2009=\u20090.024)\u2009. 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