Scary coming and going

[rolanni]

OK! Scary medicine time! Researchers suggest (in an as-yet-unpublished paper) that there are fewer autism-diagnosed girls because the manifestations of "oversensitivity," "shyness," and "obsessional interests centered around people and relationships" are seen as typically girly, and not as worrisome to parents as those same symptoms are in boys.

Um, wow.

Are we going to see an uptick in girls diagnosed with autism, now? I mean, c'mon -- "oversensitivity"? And speaking as someone who is herself quite shy (stop laughing, you over there in the corner) how shy do you have to be to be labeled "autistic?"

The story's here

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[jane-barfly.livejournal.com]

And that everyone exhibits a range of behaviors, and that the range of normal is very broad.

If we're given room to spread and grow, people are pretty resilient.
Laura