Dr Elembaby told HuffPost UK: “For years, autism has been primarily studied and diagnosed based on how it appears in men.” But autistic women are “often masking their struggles so well that ...

F or many decades it was thought that men were very much more likely to be autistic than women. Some studies placed the ratio of autistic males to females as high as 16:1. In the last decade ...

Historically, diagnostic tools have been developed based on studies of autistic men and boys, meaning many women do not fit the traditional mold of what autism is “supposed” to look like.