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2:46pm July 7, 2013

➸ : It seems to be commonly believed that the reason why so many autistic...

mulder-are-you-suggesting:

It seems to be commonly believed that the reason why so many autistic girls and women go undiagnosed is because we’re supposed to be good at “masking" our symptoms. And like… I think that’s probably true in many cases, but I don’t think it tells the whole story. See, multiple people have been…

This reminds me of a girl in Kanner’s original paper. She was the sister of an autistic boy. Her development was described in detail. But he didn’t call her autistic, he called her schizophrenic, and entertained no possibility that she was autistic.

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    Every report card I ever brought home in elementary school was full of the same kinds of comments. I also “would” not...
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  7. soilrockslove reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yeah, a lot of circular reasoning goes on… Girls don’t get diagnosed because it’s a “boys thing" and it’s a "boys thing”...
  8. twocentsormore reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    My school records that I managed to save from elementary school, and psychologist evaluations, are all full of comments...
  9. apheline reblogged this from mulder-are-you-suggesting and added:
    Yeah I can “mask” things well enough, or at least I have been able to at certain points in my life, and I was considered...
  10. chavisory reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Masking is not something I’ve ever been able to do. Suppressing certain symptoms, yes, but not the kind of social...
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