Autism in Girls

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lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2283588,00.html

I'm not sure who apart from Health Visitors ever thought that girls can't be autistic as female autism is not that poorly documented. It was sad to read about Lorna Wing's daughter though.

Tiny Atwood has some good book on girls with autism.
Personally both my girls have a dx

I agree with Lisa, Tony Attwood is very good on this in his books even stating that current diagnostic criteria is not sensitive enough to cater for female expression of Aspergers. I can't find his piece on this on the internet at the moment but this link kind of paraphrases:
www.aspergerfoundation.org.uk/info_adolescents.htm

Link is dodgy! But the info is there if you click on the third one down, "girls".

oh link actually works!

I have just read "Aspergirls" and self-diagnosed.