What Happened to All the Females with Autism Spectrum Disorders?

• By: David H. Skuse, MD, FRCP Institute of Child Health, London
• October 1st, 2016
• diagnosis, female, prevalence, science, women and girls
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The concept of an autistic disorder is generally accepted to have originated with Leo Kanner and his classic 1943 account of ‘Autistic Disorders of Affective Contact’ (Kanner, 1943). He described 11 children with what would now be regarded as severe autism. Three of these 11 were girls, and as...