(recommended article) Why Women With Autism Are Invisible

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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

<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/health/rate-of-autism-diagnoses-has-climbed-s\

tudy-finds.html?ref=opinion>

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

<http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200401/autism-whats-sex-got-do-it>

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