2025-09-23 09:01 UTC
@Mabande@mastodon.social @VeryBadLlama@mas.to
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I take your point about the need for a counterweight to women once again being blamed for their children ending up in the autistic spectrum.
The fact that women in the autistic spectrum often go under the radar is because female social structures often allow autistic spectrum personalities (ASPs) to socialised and also because the primary diagnostic tools were set up to diagnose male autistic spectrum personalities...
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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2025-09-23 09:05
@Mabande@mastodon.social @VeryBadLlama@mas.to 2/2 ...this under diagnosis is a health issue for women. Although an ASP may learn to mask very effectively social masking costs lots of extra energy even when it becomes intuitive. A non-diagnosed ASP can easily develop secondary mental health problems as a result of having to conform to non ASP social structures. Sustaining the "autistic Dad" stereotype does not necessarily help women looking for answers.