The pressure to mask can severely affect the overall health of women and girls. However, some powerful tools exist to help overcome these challenges.
Autistic women and girls are typically thought to be better at masking compared to men and boys, making it harder for them to receive a diagnosis. —and in April, the autism rate for girls surpassed 1 percent, the highest ever recorded in the country. These rocketing rates in autism diagnoses do not indicate a general increase in autism overall, but rather an increase in knowledge and awareness of the condition, especially for girls and women.
Sexist biases of autism have also played out in the medical field: Doctors and medical providers without enough examples of autism have often failed to recognize it in patients that didn’t fit the societal stereotypes about who experiences autism, andAs a result, women and girls on the spectrum have been more under- or misdiagnosed with autism than boys, and on average receive diagnoses later in life than boys and men do. from Robert McCrossin from 2022.
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