So Aspergers in women here are 3 reasons.
It's not diagnosed.
and they're Quite shocking.
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Yeah, there's a, there's a lot of interesting things that happened between,
um, you know, females, on the autism spectrum, and men on the autism spectrum.
It seems to be men get diagnosed three times more likely than females do.
And the autism spectrum.
Now this is not because.
Uh, autism is three times more likely in males and females, even though
that's what the data does suggest it's actually just because the whole
system with diagnostic is kind of more supportive for males and females, which
is shockingly bad, but that's how it is.
And there's three reasons for the, you know, girls get misdiagnosed
all the time on sometimes in.
Many cases, they don't get any diagnosis at all.
So rather than girls being diagnosed with like bipolar or girls being diagnosed
with like some other kind of issue, like anxiety or whatever, um, they actually,
uh, they just don't diagnose girls at all.
So you got these people who are struggling, women on the spectrum who
are struggling their entire lives.
They go for a diagnostic assessment and then they come
out kind of completely confused.
Cause they have no diagnosis, no official diagnosis, nothing,
no terms, no help, no nothing.
And it's just, it annoys me, but I'm going to list three of the reasons why.
Women actually missed off the diagnostic criteria for autism
and Asperger's syndrome itself.
Let's get into it.
Okay.
So the first one is old research.
Now, originally all the research done on the subject of autism or autistic people
and Aspergers was created back in 1940s, I think 1947 was kind of like the year.
Um, and this research was focused on behavior.
Boys, almost exclusively, uh, which overshadowed, uh, a lot of the years
to come in terms of how the autism beliefs of diagnosis were characterized.
So people were taking up this, um, This old kind of like document,
which is basically saying that girls didn't have autism because
they only studied it on boys.
I have no idea why.
And, uh, this became like the common purpose of all the the common idea
of what we're doing like, Oh yeah.
Well, girls kind of get it.
So we just look at boys and, you know, so when someone's looking at
diagnosing somebody, they're going to say, well, first of all, and, Oh boy.
So, uh, yeah, we'll just autism too, aside for a second.
So they're not even looking from the get-go.
This is really frustrating.
It's actually quite shocking because.
This is never the case, you know?
And there's so many complications with just saying that it's gender specific.
You can't, you can't, you know, you can't off sex specific.
You can't do that.
There's no, there's no way you, okay.
There's no way.
So old researchers to blame for a massive majority of the fact that so many women.
I missed out of having the Aspergers diagnosis, which is just, it annoys me
so much, but people like the national autistic society are doing great work
into re-educating and running courses on this to kind of flip that back around
because it's just getting ridiculous.
Okay.
So number two is the professional attitude, right?
And obviously it's very interesting.
Um, a lot of the time misdiagnosis of autism in girls, right?
Is due to the attitude of the medical professional, who's undertaking the
assessment, um, and is, um, rigid to the old way of thinking autism and males.
And so it's kind of like, They kind of, um, th th they're almost like
blinkered into the stuff that they do.
Cause you know, when you go to the school and you're researching stuff, um, all
of the people who are practitioners of it all learn the same kind of research.
And so they're looking at the research from a certain angle and it almost gives
them this kind of attitude, especially old school ones and the older generation
ones, because they've, they're not up to date with any of the new research.
Um, some of them, not all of them, but a lot of them are, you know,
and especially, I'd say in like the United States and Canada, the very,
like the, the research is still.
old world compared to, like the modern more, more like up-to-date, uh, research.
That's going on.
And so, because of this professional attitudes, do you get impacted by
that kind of, uh, schooling that they've had or the education that they
receive when they did that doctors and then that influences, then there.
Judgment on, on if someone's on the autism spectrum or not, when you're
doing diagnostic criteria, they're not looking with, with, you know, a
clean slate or just a new pair of eyes.
And it's it's madness that actually still happens.
It's just crazy now.
Masking is a huge one.
And what masking is, is when somebody, um, will.
We'll kind of act a certain way to cover up the traits of autism
so that they kind of, uh, become normal in the eyes of society.
Now, females with autism, are masters mastered, the art really of masking
and, uh, which is a covering up, you know, like I said, he's still there,
we'll go to work or school or whatever.
And then they will act like, Oh yeah, I'm cool with this.
I'm cool with that.
And I'm really trying to fit in, but in actual fact they're not fitting in,
they're just acting around it, which actually causes some kind of a really
bad side effects where if you're acting all day and you're doing all of this to
keep up with this kind of like status quo and its image, then by the time you
get home, you're completely exhausted and your burnout and your meltdown, and
probably have, um, every single night probably have something like a huge mouth
on a huge burnout, which is very, very common for girls on the autism spectrum.
Now, the interesting thing is.
Because girls mask so well.
And because they do masking a lot and masking their traits, when it comes
to that with diagnostic criteria and diagnose and girls on the autism spectrum,
you can just tell what's happening.
They're going to the, the assessment of diagnosis place and that the
kind of doctors and the assessors are looking out and thinking, Oh my
goodness, this person isn't displaying these traits in the same way.
And it becomes everything.
Difficulty or an issue because of the masking taking into consideration
is causing the, uh, the, the ability to really know what's going on
to be a little bit more cloudy.
Yeah.
Which just calls for better techniques and more professional assessors, really.
But you, Joe Bloggs, average assessor, isn't going to know all of these
things, especially if they're running off the fact that their professional
attitude stinks a little bit or that the older researchers and the research
that they're actually going to.
So this kind of creates this bubble almost where.
These, uh, these shocking facts for women, uh, just, it's just
set up to fail at the moment.
But like I said, you know, the national autistic society are making progress.
They are making things.
There's lots of progressive, uh, trying to change the way that
girls are kind of looked upon as being on the autism spectrum.
And I think for the better, and I'm really here and I'm proud to support it.
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