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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But the researchers say that the biology of the girls' brains looks different than the boys' so isn't it a different thing then?

So if the symptoms are different (narrow interests and all that) and the images of the brain are different what in the world is leading them to conclude it's the same thing?

Also, what if a boy had the degree of symptoms as some of the girls. That is, the boy has more social motivation and friends, intense interests that can last a few months but it don't dominate his conversations, and all the characteristics that the researchers are saying are autism in girls. Would they then diagnose autism in those boys as well who right now would probably not meet the threshold for being diagnosed?[/quote]

The MRIs are extremely preliminary and based on a small sample, however the article says, "In short, the brain of a girl with autism may be more like the brain of a typical boy than that of a boy with autism..."

ASD is more common in boys, so you get a diagnosis bias.  The key point of the article is that "social and personal factors that may help females mask or compensate for the symptoms of ASD better than males do..."

It's still autism; social constructs then later sex hormones complicate the matter, but it's still autism.[/quote]

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