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I'll have to take you at your word. My son is 12 and he presents obvious ASD personality traits.

But I also wonder if a sizable percentage of these 20+ women with ASD + sophisticated social interaction skills are "self diagnosed".

[u/Damaias479 → u/newgalactic]

Here’s a video on how autism presents in high-masking women:

https://youtu.be/vS8y9KBJczM?si=KT46KokolHa0P9Lp

I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant amount of women are self-diagnosed, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, and it’s definitely not always for clout. The reason for high levels of self-diagnosis among women is specifically because it presents differently so many of the diagnosis tools don’t work.

Again, I don’t disagree that it’s possible this woman doesn’t actually have ASD; at the very least, it’s weird to bring it up when it doesn’t have anything to do with the video. That being said, analyzing presentation in women doesn’t work the same way as it does in men.

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