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What adults get wrong about girls and autism
A large Swedish study shows girls are as likely to be autistic as boys but often miss early diagnosis due to clinical and societal biases, researchers say.
- A new study from Sweden finds girls 'aren't less likely to be autistic' but are diagnosed later, challenging previous assumptions.
- For decades, clinicians and researchers believed autism overwhelmingly affected boys, shaping screening and diagnostic expectations that favored early identification of boys.
- With an analytic cohort of 665, researchers analyzed diagnosis patterns by sex and age in Sweden to test underdiagnosis in girls.
- Implications include reassessing screening for autistic girls, as the findings challenge diagnostic practices and could affect when girls receive support services in clinical settings.
- The study positions itself to reshape prevalence estimates by sex and prompt policy and clinical review, potentially improving early diagnosis for girls.
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What adults get wrong about girls and autism
For decades, autism was believed to overwhelmingly affect boys. Yet a big new study out of Sweden provides perhaps the best evidence yet that girls aren’t less likely to be
·Buffalo, United States
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