#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost)・・・This International Women’s Day I am thinking about all o

#Repost @adaptedjames (@get_repost)・・・This International Women’s Day I am thinking about all of the non-male undiagnosed autistics out there. For me my diagnosis opened the world up, and I found why I was the way I was and how there were ways to regulate specific to autistics. Current estimates put the prevalence of autism as 1:4 between girls and boys, however suggestions have been made that actually it could be more 1:1 and that gender differences are masking autism in girls. Because early descriptions of the neurotype was based on groups of almost exclusively boys, the diagnostic criteria mainly outlines how autism is expressed in males. It has only been in the past few years that there have been studies specifically on how autism presents in women and how the questions and investigations can be altered to ensure that girls don’t fall through the net. I have found in my involvement in the online autistic community that out of the people diagnosed later in life or the self diagnosed, there is a slightly higher proportion of women, perhaps because of the difficulty being seen as an autistic woman. The National Autisitc society has more information on autism and gender here: http://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/gender.aspxAnd more specific information about how autism presents in girls here: https://senmagazine.co.uk/articles/articles/senarticles/is-autism-different-for-girls......#internationalwomensday #woman #girl #girls #autisticgirl #aspergirl #diagnosis #autism #autistic #actuallyautistic #dyspraxia #sensory #business #autisticadult #sensoryprocessingdisorder #spd #autisticbusiness #autismproud #redinstead #doilookautisticyet #autismacceptance #tinybusiness #proud #notbroken #neurodivergent #disabledisnotabadword -- source link

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