watched documantary "children with psychological disord

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Watched it tonight and it was about "children with psychological disorders".
There was one boy age 8 and one girl age 7.

The boy was very active and had tendencies to be aggressive and throwing tantrums. His mother said she was worried that he would end up in jail later.
There was a scene in which he was playing soccer with a friend and he could engage into this and made contact with that other boy.
Then he got assessed and whenever he was asked about how he felt, he could not give an answer and muted. His mother had to answer for him. He had to do imaginary play and displayed ability to do it, but in an "non-common" way.
Finally he got diagnosed with autism.

The girl had no ability to talk in class at all, she muted. The parents engaged a speech therapist. Then after a couple weeks of work they wanted the girl to have contact with another girl of the class and play. She did not involve the other girl into her play and took all instructions literally, but the fact that she talked at that moment (describing her own actions) was called a "success".
This girl could only talk to people she was very close to, like the mother.
Finally after speech therapy her ability to connect in school did not improve, but noone thought of autism and get her assessed, which I think is what she has as well as the boy does.

But she was not throwing tantrums, was not aggressive, but she muted as soon as she was confronted with people, whereas the boy could talk and make contact to people.

I think this is happening often, that the signs of autism in girls are not detected, because they can tend to be more silent or even mute, but it is labeled as "shyness".

Any thoughts on this?

That's true girls with autism are overlooked because their inability to engage in social interaction with peers is looked at as merely being shy or anxious that's what happened to me in school growing up.

I remember once a teacher walked up to me on the playground and said to me "I think the reason why you don't play with kids your own age is cuz you're too mature."

Yeah im sure that's it

Also, on average girls are somewhat better at social skills than boys. If this holds true for AS girls, some may be in the range for NT boys, while still lagging behind other girls. Given the gender-segregation common in elementary school peer interaction, a girl like this will be competing with NT girls and falling short, and may be rejected by NT boys simply because she's a girl.