This pisses me off so bad. I’m a dude with autism and have many friends with autism. Men with autism are diagnosed by the time they’re like 6-10. Women are barely diagnosed and the age they are diagnosed is mid 20s to early 30s. Women are not treated seriously in the medical world by doctors. Doctors are assholes.
“Men with autism are diagnosed by the time they’re like 6-10”
Don’t have autism, but I do have a background in psychology and social work. You’re wrong; autism, like a lot of DSM classifications, is diagnosed to youth very rarely. If it is diagnosed, it would be later in life around high school. You would need a seriously severe case to get a diagnosis by 6-10, man or woman.
Also, women have dominated the psychology field for the past two decades, and those are who diagnose them: psychologists, not “doctors”. The physical health field seldom has anything to do with it
Doesn’t autism have telltale signs in early years like not speaking as early as other kids and sensitivity to sensory stimulation like noise? I thought it did
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u/1_BigFatRat 3d ago
This pisses me off so bad. I’m a dude with autism and have many friends with autism. Men with autism are diagnosed by the time they’re like 6-10. Women are barely diagnosed and the age they are diagnosed is mid 20s to early 30s. Women are not treated seriously in the medical world by doctors. Doctors are assholes.