{"id":160,"date":"2018-09-25T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/?p=160"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:27:13","slug":"thousands-of-autistic-girls-and-women-going-undiagnosed-due-to-gender-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/2018\/09\/25\/thousands-of-autistic-girls-and-women-going-undiagnosed-due-to-gender-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Autistic Girls and Women Going Undiagnosed Due to Gender Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecent research suggests that the number of males and females on the autism spectrum is far more equal than previously thought and diagnostic statistics suggest,\u201d [Carol Povey, Director, National Autistic Society&#8217;s Centre for Autism] said. \u201cThe problem is that professionals often don\u2019t understand the different ways autism can manifest in women and girls, with many going through their lives without a diagnosis and an understanding of why they feel different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/sep\/14\/thousands-of-autistic-girls-and-women-going-undiagnosed-due-to-gender-bias\">The Guardian September 14th 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecent research suggests that the number of males and females on the autism spectrum is far more equal than previously thought and diagnostic statistics suggest,\u201d [Carol Povey, Director, National Autistic Society&#8217;s Centre for Autism] said. \u201cThe problem is that professionals often don\u2019t understand the different ways autism can manifest in women and girls, with many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/sdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}