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This Is Why Girls With Autism Are ALWAYS Forgotten · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  This is why girls with autism are always forgotten about all
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  that coming up. Hey guys.
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  Welcome back to the as we world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism ADHD OCD and dyslexia.
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  I got your back from All right, guys, what's going on?
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  I've been doing a lot of videos recently on girls on the autism
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  spectrum because I feel like girls with autism are always
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  like, I like the secondary, you know, that I've always talked
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  about boys with autism, may be able to talk about girls with
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  autism and there are so many electrons.
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  My friends are girls who are on the autism spectrum.
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  I've done loads of videos with those, and if you'd like to
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  learn more about it, I've put the playlist in a link Down
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  Below in the description as video, but in terms of like
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  girls and the autism spectrum and and you know, not getting
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  diagnosed This are getting misdiagnose.
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  I'm not even getting the appropriate help and attention
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  that they need. Oh my goodness.
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  It's like an epidemic that like girls are three times less
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  likely to be diagnosed than males.
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  Which has no relevance at all, only other than, like some
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  shocking fact. But I want to put three reasons
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  what girls are probably forgotten about on the autism
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  spectrum, but then a video similar to this but I thought
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  I'd missed out some kind of information and I wanted to do
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  it so that I've got everything that I wanted to possibly talk
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  to you about in this video because let's face it.
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  At the end of the day, I want to give you You guys as much
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  information as possible and you're awesome.
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  And I love you. And I'm trying to make sure that
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  you guys don't feel alone and you always have someone to turn
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  to and I have as much information as possible.
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  So, yeah, let's get into the video.
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  Kick it. I don't know why I did that.
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  I'm so sorry, everybody. Right.
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  So, the first one here is old data.
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  Now most, if not all of the data that was created on autism
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  research, for autism was created for the diagnostic criteria, but
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  based upon research that was done on males and what on the
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  autism spectrum. So you gotta think about this,
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  right? When they were setting up all
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  the, the details for diagnosing people with Autism and what
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  criteria could go into a diagnostic.
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  They were looking at a model of a meals specific perspective and
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  a male specific model of On the autism spectrum.
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  So when you try and relate that information to a girl in your
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  abs and Spectrum, it's not going to fit.
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  Let's just be be perfectly honest.
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  You know it's never going to fit because the brains are
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  different. They're all different and
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  everybody but they're all different between males and
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  females. That's why we have males or
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  females, you know that the different people.
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  There's different things going on here.
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  So you can't just take the agnostic that was made for males
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  and then just smack into a female and all they didn't pass.
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  So that means they have got all sorts of.
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  No, it means that the test wasn't adequate for the person
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  you're trying to test. I mean like yeah it's weird but
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  you wouldn't test a giraffe and how well it can swim, right?
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  I don't actually drops maybe I'll swim really well but you
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  know I ain't compared to like a dolphin.
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  It's not a fair test. You know, it's ridiculous.
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  You tested often and half good. It could swim.
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  It came up with 10/10 did with the draft will probably fail
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  miserably, but that doesn't mean that the dolphin is better
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  equipped than the okay. This this metaphor, getting
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  rubbish. But, you know what I mean?
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  It's like you have that a test that adequate for the person
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  you're testing right. Otherwise it just doesn't work.
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  So Old criteria, all data super, super annoying, but it part of
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  the problem. My girls are really forgotten
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  about having autism right now. It's really off it frustrates
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  me. Okay.
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  So number two, it's different diagnostic criteria, you know,
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  when diagnosed and girls Watson, don't be a complete different
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  criteria for Diagnostics. This is like different than
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  males, obviously, because girls will have slightly different
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  characteristics and traits of autism than males, right?
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  Because girls have a more independent attitude, they will
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  try And do things a little bit differently to males on the
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  autism spectrum and it's a little bit more tricky to kind
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  of sport of tourism in females because of this factor that the
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  traitor bit different. And again it comes to factor all
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  the data that everybody has been researching was all done on
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  meals, but when you're looking forward to the future, when
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  you're looking at females, you have to always remember.
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  This is a completely clean slate, what these behavioral
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  characteristics, tellers, and what's going on here because
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  females will display different characteristics than males.
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  It's just a fact of life in, that's what it is.
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  Yes, they'll still be social. Traction issues.
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  Yes, there will be sensory processing disorder issues but
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  some of the big main Balkans will be different because there
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  is different diagnostic criteria for males to females.
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  Now, the national autistic Society are rolling out courses
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  and training to help people really understand this must
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  divide difference but so far, it's slow.
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  But sure the end of the day but it really does make a difference
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  when we can actually understand the difference between the males
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  and the females with their diagnostic criteria.
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  But this is definitely the reasons why the forgotten about
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  this is this is a hundred percent reason why they've
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  forgotten about, okay? So let me see Three is masking.
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  No masking is wearing. Artistic woman will make make a
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  mask for their issues and their difficulties to try and fit in
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  in normal typical social daily life, right?
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  Even though they'll have difficulties with it, they will
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  force themselves into situations that they don't feel comfortable
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  in because they want to appear just like everybody else.
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  To kind of get through the day to survival technique that girls
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  would use more so than boys and boys.
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  On the autism spectrum will just kind of completely be a lot with
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  certain situations, whereas girls on the autism spectrum
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  will kind of It's a very clever way of kind of like societal
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  survive situations where global mask their traits so they can
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  fit into that situation so they can feel safer in that situation
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  than being ousted or of being on the outside of the situation
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  which is just completely Bonkers that we have to do this but
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  social pressure, peer pressure, all these things kind of come in
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  and they crash down, right? So because of this when you're
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  trying to diagnose the girl on the autism spectrum, who may be
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  displaying, you know, am asking kind of characteristic at that
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  moment in time. I'm you're fighting a losing
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  battle, and some of the on the doctors are fighting a losing
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  battle because they don't know what they're looking at because
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  they haven't really thought. Well, this girl could be masking
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  get some, you know, they have to be clever about it and that
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  diagnostic criteria for females has to be thought about
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  cleverly. It has to be something new has
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  to be something that we haven't really, you know, done before
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  because you have to always change and evolve with the pros
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  and the cons here. Now, this is shopping and it is
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  probably one of the reasons main reasons why girls are often
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  missed off diagnosis or forgotten about this being part.
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  The autism spectrum but it doesn't take away from the fact
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  that it happens. And girls are on the autism
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  spectrum so we need to be looking at it differently.
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  We need to be looking for resources, new to looking at new
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  updated resources and things like the national autistic
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  society and people like that, just actually trying their best
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  to make sure that everybody is not forgotten about.
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  And everyone's kind of, like, put into giving a fair
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  opportunity in a fair chance of actually being diagnosed because
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  there's so many females right now who are just struggling day
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  to day with daily life and not getting the diagnosis because of
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  these three factors and a bunch of others, Is that not their
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  fault? It's not their fault.
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  And I just wish that like, we could just change it instantly
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  and own, and get every back together.
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  But in terms of, yeah, in terms of that, you know, we're still
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  fighting a fighting a battle here but doing stuff like this
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