http://www.cracked.com/article_23304_6-weird-ways-sexism-screwing-up-healthcare.html
Despite advancement in technology, the field of medicine seems to be somehow stuck in the 1950s.
Tesseracts wrote: My own observations support this idea, as every autistic woman or girl I have ever met is more masculine behaving than typical.
Tesseracts wrote:There is no female version of autism. Autism often goes unnoticed in girls because girls are heavily pressured to conform to social norms more than boys are, so they learn how to mask their issues faster.
Also, is it possible men may actually be more likely to have autism? Disorders and abnormalities are generally more common in men. Some people theorize autism is an extreme form of masculinity, because traits like visual spatial thinking are considered masculine. My own observations support this idea, as every autistic woman or girl I have ever met is more masculine behaving than typical.
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