autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Why? The reasons are similar: Women are socialized to mask their autistic traits, and even when they don’t succeed in hiding the signs, autism is perceived by many as an exclusively male condition.
The older an autistic woman gets without a formal diagnosis, the more likely clinicians are to be skeptical when she seeks an autism evaluation.
These women often hear, as I once did, that they seem “too normal” or have had too much success to be autistic.These sentiments are borne out of misinformation, which can affect the most qualified psychologists and scientists when it comes to women on the spectrum.
Read more on additudemag.com