Autistic Traits in Males and Females.

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Me and my brother are on the spectrum, but funnily enough I was diagnosed at 8 years old and I'm a female, while he went completely unnoticed right up until last year, when he met his friend's teenage sister who was quite low-functioning autistic. After meeting her he suddenly decided he may be on the spectrum (even though growing up with a sister of his own on the spectrum wasn't enough to convince him ), and he went through the process of getting assessed and everything, then finally received a diagnosis of Asperger's a couple of months ago. I always thought he had bipolar or personality disorder or even depression, but Asperger's really surprised me.