Dataset for: "Do my friends only like the school me or the true me?" Understanding the relationship between sense of school belonging, camouflaging, and anxiety in autistic students attending mainstream secondary school: A mixed methods study'

Qualitative and quantitative data gathered from an anonymous online survey. Secondary ages students who have a diagnosis or self-identify as autistic, and their parents. Parents answered demographic data and the autism-quotient (adolescent version). Children answered open-ended questions about school belonging and camouflaging. Questionnaires for young people were: simple school belonging scale; Adapted CAT-Q, and ASC-ASD. Coding and data used for qualitative synthesis.