
High Masking Autistic Women
My Friend Autism
The Stigma of Being Autistic
Is there a stigma based around being autistic if you're a woman, which is stronger or higher or even more existent than men? Just a little barriers here. You can see how the barriers start to add up. So I guess, you know, from an early age, women may be expected to be more social like we talked about, but also more caring, more empathetic, more motherly. See, there's gender bias,. There's gender expectations, there's that stigma. Well, you're supposed to be caring and motherly, instinctual, but you come across cold. The obvious autistic things in robotic and emotionless. And what, wow, that's not
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