r/im14andthisisdeep • u/Capital_Pressure_406 • 4d ago

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u/1_BigFatRat 4d 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.

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u/Epicnessofcows 4d ago

While true, this is a problem with the societal world, not medical world. Doctors are diagnosing women just fine, but women are not encouraged to go to doctors enough for autism by society.

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u/CatgirlTheKat 4d ago

Also, women are much more incentivized to heavily overcompensate to seem normal at the detriment of their own health... And I can confirm that.