This is why girls with autism are always forgotten about,
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What's going on?
I've been doing a lot of videos recently on girls on the autism
spectrum, because I feel like girls with autism are always like.
I like the secondary, you know, everyone always talks about boys with autism.
Nobody ever really talks about girls with autism.
And there are so many like loops.
My friends are girls who are on the autism spectrum.
I've done loads of videos with those.
And if you'd like to learn more about it, I've put the playlist in a link down
below in the description, this video.
But in terms of like, Uh, girls and the autism spectrum and, and, you know, not
getting diagnosis or getting misdiagnosed.
I'm not even getting the appropriate help and attention that they need.
Oh my goodness.
Like an epidemic like girls are three times less likely to be diagnosed than
males, which has no relevance at all.
Only other than like some shocking facts.
But I want to split three reasons.
why girls, are probably forgotten about on the autism spectrum, but then a
video similar to this, but I thought I'd missed out some kind of information
and I wanted to do it so that I've got everything that I wanted to possibly
talk to you about in this video, because let's face it at the end of the day.
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I don't know why he did that.
I'm so sorry everybody.
Right.
So the first one here is old data.
Now most, if not, all of the data that was created on autism research for autism, um,
was created for the diagnostic criteria.
But based upon research that was done on males on the autism spectrum.
So you've got to think about this, right?
When they were setting up all the details for diagnosing people with autism and
what criteria could go into a diagnostic, they were looking at a model of a males.
Perspective and a male specific model of someone on the autism spectrum.
So when you try and relate that information to a girl on the autism
spectrum, it's not going to fit.
Let's just be perfectly honest.
You know, it's never going to fit because the brains are different.
They're all different than everybody, but they're all
different between males and females.
That's why we have males and females, you know, the, the different people,
there's different things going on here.
So you can't just take diagnostic that was made for males and then
just smack it on to a female.
And if, Oh, they didn't pass it.
That means they haven't got autism.
No, it means that.
The test wasn't adequate for the person you're trying to test.
I mean, like it's weird, right?
You wouldn't test yeah.
Giraffe and how well it can swim.
Right.
I don't actually drops.
Maybe I'll swim really well, but you know what I mean?
So like a dolphin, you, it's not a fair test, you know, it's ridiculous.
We tested the dolphin and how good it could swim and come up with 10
out of 10, did it with the draft, probably failed miserably, but that
doesn't mean that the dolphin, um, Uh, is better equipped than that.
Okay.
This, this metaphor is getting rubbish, but you know what I mean?
It's like you have that a test that's adequate for the person you're testing.
Right.
Otherwise it just doesn't work.
So, uh, all criteria, all data.
Super super annoying, but it's part of the problem.
And my girls are really forgotten about having autism right now.
It's really?
Oh, it frustrates me.
Okay.
So, and number two is different diagnostic criteria.
You know, when diagnosed in girls, with autism, there'll be a complete
different, uh, criteria for diagnostics.
Um, this is like different than males, obviously, because girls
will have slightly different.
Yeah.
Characteristics and traits of autism than males, right?
Because girls have a more independent attitude, they will try and do
things a little bit differently to males on the autism spectrum.
And it's a little bit more tricky to kind of spot autism in females
because of this factor that the, the traits are a bit different.
And again, because of the fact that all the data that everybody has been
resurgent was all done on males.
But when you're looking forward to the future, when you're looking at
females, you have to always remember, this is a completely clean slate.
What these behavioral characteristics.
tell us and what's going on here because females will display
different characteristics than males.
That's just a fact of life.
You know, that's what it is.
Yes.
There will still be social interaction issues.
Yes, there will be sensory processing soda issues, but some of the big main bulk will
be different because that is different diagnostic criteria for males to females.
Now the national autistic society are rolling out courses and trainings to
help people really understand this.
Mass divide difference.
But so far it's, it's slow, but sure.
At the end of the day, but it really does make a difference when we can
actually understand the difference between the males and females
with their diagnostic criteria.
But this is definite.
One of the reasons why they've forgotten about this is this is a hundred percent
the reason why that if a couple of belts, okay, so number three is masking.
Now I'm asking is why an autistic woman will make, uh, make a mask for
their issues and their difficulties to try and fit in, in, in normal.
Typical social daily life.
Right.
Um, even though they'll have difficulties with it, they will force themselves
into situations that they don't feel comfortable in because they
want to appear just like everybody else to kind of get through the day.
It's a survival technique that girls would use more so than boys as in boys
on the autism spectrum, or just kind of completely be a loss for certain
situations where it's girls in the autism spectrum will kind of develop.
It's a very clever way of kind of like societal survive, uh, situations
where feel will mask their traits.
So they can fit into that situation so they can feel safer in that situation.
Then there'll be an ousted or being an outside of that situation, which is
just completely bonkers that we even have to do this, but social pressure,
peer pressure, all these things kind of come in and they crash down.
Right.
So because of this, when you're trying to diagnose, a girl on the autism spectrum
who may be displaying, you know, a masking kind of characteristic at that moment in
time, You're fighting a losing battle.
And some of the, and the doctors are fighting, losing battle because they
don't know what they're looking at because they haven't really thought,
well, this gril could be masking.
Is this something, you know, they'd have to be clever about it and not
diagnostic criteria for females has to be thought about cleverly.
It has to be something new.
It has to be something that we haven't really done before, because you have
to always change and evolve with it.
Pros and the cons here now, um, this is shocking and it is probably
one of the main reasons why girls are often missed off diagnosis or
forgotten about was being part of the autism spectrum, but it doesn't take
away from the fact that it happens.
And girls are on the autism spectrum.
And so we need to be looking at it differently.
We need to be looking for resources because we're looking at new updated
resources and things like the national cystic society and people like that.
Just actually trying their best to make sure that everybody
is not forgotten about.
And everyone's kind of like put into that giving a fair opportunity and a
fair chance of actually being diagnosed because there's so many females right now
who are just struggling day-to-day with daily life and not getting the diagnosis.
Because of these three factors and a bunch of others that are not
their fault, it's not their fault.
And I just wish that we could just change it instantly and
get everybody back together.
But in terms of, uh, yeah, in terms of that, you know, we're still fighting
a fight in a battle here, but doing stuff like this is super awesome.
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