the signs we associate with autism tend to be more common among men. As a result, many autistic women end up getting a diagnosis later in life than their male counterparts. That’s deeply unfortunate ...

Professor Francesca Happé, an expert in autism from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London, says that historically research has mainly focused on men. This has shaped ...

That’s partly because the signs of autism many of us grew up learning about can apply more often to boys and men than women and girls, they say. We spoke to Dr Mikki Lee Elembaby Psy.D ...

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 ...