livebeyondautism

So I just finish another class on reading the different between boys and girls with autism  Signs of Autism Were Made for Boys The signs of autism that we are told to watch for at early ages were primarily made for boys. That’s not to say that autism  girls can’t or don’t act similarly to autism boys, but that sometimes they show their autism in different ways. there is  social struggles for autism children, but that particular side to autism may be more severe in boys than girls. See, girls typically are much more social than boys, so a boy may be seen easily as autistic while a girl is labeled “shy” because her social struggles are less severe. Autism  girls tend to have obsessions just like boys, but they’re seen as more socially appropriate, so they can be difficult to diagnose. Their behavior isn’t any less autistic than boys, it’s simply not the stereotypical autistic traits because those traits were written for boys. With Severe Autism, Girls Tend to Struggle More than Boys So o