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The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story

The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story

In The Lost Girls of Autism, renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored for so long. Generations of researchers, convinced autism was a male problem, simply didn’t bother looking for it in women. But it is now becoming increasingly clear that many autistic women and girls do not fit the traditional, male, model of autism. Instead, they camouflage and mask, hiding their autistic traits to accommodate a society that shuns them.

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date 3 April 2025

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The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story