Autism And Gender

The big surprise for me in the new autism statistics that just came out from the United States Centers for Disease control is that the discrepancy between boys and girls has actually increased. Now, boys are 4.6 times more likely than girls to have an identified autism spectrum disorder, instead of four times. And then I remembered that these numbers are actually from 2008. I think that awareness that there are autistic women who are not named Temple Grandin has increased tremendously in the last four years, and I think that we will probably see a change in the other direction with the next set of data.

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