Alex Plank--What the @#$% is this crap?

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Because you said you are undiagnosed or at least that is what it says in your profile.

"Have Aspergers - Undiagnosed"

obsession:
1. Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

I was not diagnosed, because my parents, teachers, physicians, everyone around knows sh** about autism/aspergers. Not because of my penis. And that's also the case of my best friend - and guess what, she is female.

Though shouldn't you be more outraged about the children getting thrown out of school?

XFilesGeek - like someone pointed out, it is more powerful to pick just these numbers for propagandistic reasons. Or Alex didn't remember how many girls are there, or whatever. I am sure as hell if he pointed out girls only, no single man would complain. Do you know why...?

and kid = he? In my opinion, Alex used it because it is more natural than "it".If you ask me about my friend, i hear "male friend". Women hear "female friend". It is natural. I have male eyes and ears, they have female.

I understand it perfectly.It is just funny how some women have to emphasize that they have vaginas all the time. Why do they think anyone wants to hear that? Why such obsession with few organs?

And could someone please show me how to do the math? Because if 1:88 kids in has autism and 1:54 of them are boys, wouldn't it stand to reason that the number of girls is bigger than 1:88? Is the answer 1:122 girls has autism? Or can you only rightfully figure it out if you have the n for boys and the n for girls?

I know that's not the point, but I can't figure it out and now I am stuck.

So...are girls with ASDs being missed or overlooked during an evaluation because they have different characteristics than boys? Kopp and colleagues recently published a study in which they examined clinical characteristics of 100 girls, ages 3 to 18 years, with average intellectual abilities who were referred to a child neuropsychiatric clinic for problems with social interactions, attentional or academic difficulties, or tics. Though only 12 of the girls had been diagnosed previously with ASD, ADHD, or a tic disorder, 46 girls met criteria for an ASD based on the findings of the investigators' comprehensive assessment.

Summary of Research Findings of Differences between Boys and Girls with ASDs

What follows is a general summary of the above-referenced research. Specific findings may vary depending on the age of the research participants, level of intellectual ability, the type of sample studied (clinic or laboratory), and how skills and behaviors were measured (observed or parent report).

As a group, males with ASD score higher than girls with ASD on intellectual assessments. (This might actually support the notion that higher functioning girls are not being diagnosed and included in these calculations.)
The play of boys with ASD has been found to be more repetitive and restricted in range.
As assessed on diagnostic instruments for autism, the communicative abilities of girls with ASD have been observed to be stronger (e.g., pointing, gaze following).
Boys and girls with ASD may experience different developmental trajectories related to social difficulties with boys demonstrating more difficulties earlier in life, and girls expressing greater impairment in early adolescence.
Boys with ASD may tend to engage in disruptive behavior to gain objects, while girls with ASD may tend to engage in disruptive behavior to get attention.
Girls with ASD may be more able to focus and may be less distractible than boys with ASD.
Young girls with ASD have been found to appear more anxious and depressed than boys with ASD.
Parents may overestimate the social difficulties or impairments of their daughters because they have (and society has) greater expectations for how girls should behave in the social and communicative domains.

Julie Daniels, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who collaborated on the CDC study, said autism prevalence in North Carolina is higher than previously estimated and slightly higher than the national average. The estimate for the state was 1 in 70 children, with a rate of 1 in 43 boys and 1 in 196 girls.

One would think, right?

Maybe the reason the OP was so upset was because of 2 things. 1. The whole purpose of the thread and 2. the children getting thrown out of school, which probably helped to fuel the rage that is in the very first post. I don't know for sure, but this is just a theory.

I think Alex should have been a bit more thorough. I found this on RxList. There are other websites that basically is saying the same things.

Alex probably should have said something like this.

One in every 88 U.S. children -- and one in 54 boys -- has autism, the CDC now estimates.

But if a person does the math a lot more boys have autism than girls.

Autism in girls:
1 in 34

Autism in boys
1 in 54

But, rather going ballistic, I do an Internet search.

1 in 88 children has Autism

I look for the number of Autism children go up as NTs and the mental health professional becomes more familiar with it.

Maybe she did overreact but the sexist comments that follow are beyond disgusting.

How dare a woman get out of line!! !

Women have every right to overreact to a society that has largely ignored them forever and continues to do so - unless some man needs his ass wiped, right?

Referencing feminazis is not going to help the situation but I suspect helping others isn't the objective of many here.