
Psychiatrist Explains Why Autism and Gender Identity Are Connected
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What's the Most Important Clinical Data to Track in Private Practice as Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Children with gender identity variants have a 3 to 21% chance that they have autism spectrum disorder, but adults have a 5 to 8 percent chance. That suggests this neurodevelopmental link between the two conditions. A big part of working with people with autism spectrum disorder is helping them be comfortable within themselves. And so a big part of that could be mentalization.
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