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14 Feb 2013, 7:10 am

answeraspergers wrote:
It is mainly a male thing.

I forget the stats but its clearly a male dominant condition.


Stats are stats, they are not the truth!

http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/a ... ctrum.aspx
http://docs.autismresearchcentre.com/pa ... %20ASC.pdf
http://www.yourlittleprofessor.com/girls.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/ ... =digest_12

There are now a significant amount of studies on females with autism/Asperger's, read the studies of Tony Attwood, Simon Baron-Cohen and others.

I firmly believe there is not a significant difference between the amount of females versus males with ASCs, just that females are not picked up in most cases, for various reasons.


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14 Feb 2013, 7:56 am

Females tend to just show the signs differently I think. Also if a girl is having social difficulties e.g: no eye contact, awkwardness, meltdowns due to sensory overload, she is just presumed to be a shy sensitive girl and nothing else but if it were a guy most people would find it peculiar and want him to talk to someone.

As a kid my parents tried getting me diagnosed twice as a recommendation of my teachers and family doctor. The first one we went into shooed us away saying "Aspergers and Autism is what you see in Rain Man. I won't diagnose otherwise. She looks just fine." Wouldn't even interview us.

Second one didn't even diagnose females because it was "too hard to pick up on." Freaking quacks.



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14 Feb 2013, 10:05 am

JellyCat wrote:
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There are less females who are diagnosed with Aspergers than females, but that doesn't necessarily mean there are less females with Aspergers. We just might not be noticing it as much in females, for whatever reason. I doubt that anyone can "hide" a condition like Aspergers deliberately, especially if they might not know what that is. So I think you're right about that, Jamesy.

You can 'hide' a condition like Aspergers. Even if you don't know what it is. I used to. I looked at how my peers acted, and then consciously copied them (mainly because I knew I was different). A lot of people copy those around them to fit in, NTs and Aspies.


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14 Feb 2013, 10:22 am

Of the people who I see who are "clearly" Aspies, I would say 60-70% are female. It's obvious to me that my GF is pretty high on the spectrum (likely with classic Autism) but experts apparently completely missed it. She's only now getting a full psychological evaluation and I'll bet the "experts" will STILL miss it even though it's VERY obvious given all the research I've done. That's why I was attracted to her (and didn't reject her within 5 minutes based on her apparent lack of interest) and why her friends are almost exclusively male.