In China, it is known as “single disease”. The Japanese term translates as “intentionally closed”. Throughout the world, there is a perception of people with autism as isolated, socially embarrassing and isolated, it seems not only lacking the type of automatic social instinct that allows successful interaction, but also the desire to achieve this. There is also imagining that people with autism tend to be men.
For decades, the researchers – I personally – thought of autism as a male case often. The more we study children and men, the clearer of the autistic image that appeared – or so we think.
Today, we have realized that we miss a huge piece of puzzle all the time. We not only failed to identify autism in large numbers of women and girls – as it prevented them from obtaining diagnosis and support – but now we discovered that the brain with female autism works differently from males, especially when it comes to social motives and behaviors. As a result, a completely new image of autism in girls crystallizes, forcing the root rethinking of everything we thought we know.
Autism is a nervous development, usually diagnosed at the age of 5. The current standard diagnostic criteria indicate “continuous difficulties with social communication and social interaction”, as well as “restricted and repeated patterns of behaviors, activities or interests to the extent that this daily performance weakens.”
The World Health Organization estimates that 1 per cent of children around the world It is autism, but …