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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who works in this field, this spoke to me quite a bit. I've run into quite a few girls over the years who fit the patterns described in this article much more readily than the traditional autism diagnosis, and who therefore bounced from diagnosis to diagnosis trying to find something that fit them and their needs. I had been thinking of them in terms of social communication disorder since they didn't have the stereotyped, repetitive interest of my boys, but that never seemed like a perfect fit either.

And yes, to the PP who talked about how male and female brains are actually very similar, I agree with you about their structure and the confines of social expectations related to gender. But it does stand to reason that being exposed to too much testosterone in utero would have a different effect on a male-already with more testosterone- vs a female. That was where the part about female ASD brains reacting like NT male brains made a lot of sense to me.[/quote]

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