(repost) Re: (recommended article) Why Women With Autism Are Invisible

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Hi All,

just reposting this article for the benefit of a new member who requested it.

thanks again CJ for posting it.

- Helen

I thought this article was very good. Excerpt follows....

" Autism spectrum disorders are big news lately. But even as overall diagnoses

climb (a child's chance of getting diagnosed with something on the spectrum rose

20 percent between 2006 and 2008), women and girls with autism may be missing

out. The perception of autism as being a disease that's a function of " an

extreme male brain, " as one expert put it recently, makes it harder to help

autistic girls. As Liane Holliday Willey, who has Asperger's and is the author

of " Pretending to be Normal: Living With Asperger's Syndrome, " put it, " Females

are grossly underdiagnosed with autism. We do not 'present' as loudly as boys

do. " "

more...

Why Women With Autism Are Invisible

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/why-women-with-autism-are-invisble

Enjoy (or not),

~CJ