no info on older autistic women on Google

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catlover02
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09 Jun 2011, 12:52 pm

Temple Grandin has autism. Temple Grandin is also a movie about her and her life with autism. Here is a link about Temple Grandin and also Temple Grandin things that you all could buy. http://www.templegrandin.com/



peacerunner
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22 Jun 2011, 9:41 pm

it bugs me that the online quizzes for self diagnosis are slanted towards males.

females and males on the spectrum have similarities but we are DIFFERENT, duh!

I wonder how many more older female aspies would be identified and helped if we had better diagnostic tools?