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Although elevated rates of depression in autistic individuals are well documented, the neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying this overlap remain debated, particularly in adulthood. This review synthesizes convergent evidence from genetics, monoaminergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission, neuroinflammatory signaling, hypothalamic\u2013pituitary\u2013adrenal axis dysregulation, large-scale brain network alterations, and gut\u2013brain axis modulation to clarify the biological and psychosocial pathways contributing to ASD\u2013depression comorbidity. In addition to shared neurobiological vulnerability, cumulative environmental stressors such as chronic social masking, stigma, and structural barriers may amplify depressive risk across the lifespan. We propose a hypothesis-generating framework that integrates these findings into a mechanistic stratification model, linking dominant biological profiles to targeted therapeutic hypotheses. 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