Autism may be far more common in women and girls than previously thought, with many of those now being diagnosed being women who’ve slipped through the cracks in childhood. As research uncovers more about the differences in symptoms between the genders, even more of us are likely to come to...
But what you might not realize is that you can have both. In fact, research suggests that anywhere from 28% to 44% of all adults diagnosed withASD(autism spectrum disorder, or autism) may also haveADHD. Just a couple of decades ago, most doctors wouldn’t think to screen adult patients...
From this point of view, we propose a discussion about the socio-communicative capacity of a person diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), focusing on the dialogical capacity of human communication for an idiographic and qualitative analysis on the mental states use of words and attributions...
One of the criteria of getting diagnosed with Asperger’s – or autism spectrum disorder as it is called now – is that there needs to be a “significant impairment”. Without that, it’s really hard to get diagnosed, even though making sense is just as important or even more important f...
The objective of this research is to study, via a qualitative and exploratory approach, the coping strategies used by adults with autism and with no intellectual impairment. Semi-directive interviews were carried out with 31 adults diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome or high-functioning autism (HFA...
Autism spectrum disorder is about 4.5 times more common among boys than girls, which means some young women go undiagnosed for years.
Im a 37 yr old mother of a son who was recently diagnosed with SPD. While learning about his SPD, I discovered that I also likely have SPD, … Just realizing at 37 years of age that I myself could very well have a severe disorder and ADHD Just realizing at 37 years of age after ...
Males are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, although this ratio varies with age. Indeed, while there is a proportion of around 2.3 males to each female from 6 to 18 years of age, the older population presents a ratio of only 1.6 males to 1 female (Willcutt, 2012). These ...
It’s mostly an apocryphal joke that I got diagnosed with autism because Sam made a crack about it. In truth, it was because of my father. During the pandemic, he was diagnosed with ALS. Once, when he fell in the middle of the night, my parents remained on the living-room floor for...
It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a ...