Female Life on the Spectrum - Insights from Jennifer Cook
All Autism Talk
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Autism
"It makes perfect sense that if you and I are looking at two flowers, we're only going to be expecting ABC and D," she says. " neurodiverse females tend to act with a social ease level that is about in parity with a neurotypical male." The more distant they are from a neurotypicals female, how boyish quote unquote they are, is what gets you noticed and identified,. which ain't the case for a lot of people, you know? She adds: "Regardless of gender, the less obviously in need of support the person does not mean the less autistic".
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