How different are girls and boys above and below the diagnostic threshold for autism spectrum disorders?

By K. Dworzynski, A. Ronald, P. Bolton, F. Happé. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Experiences of Late-diagnosed Women with Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Investigation of the Female Autism Phenotype (2016, background): “…that include strengths as well as difficulties. require more severe autistic symptoms (Russell et al. 2010) and greater cognitive and behavioural problems (Dworzynski et al. 2012) to meet ASC criteria, and teachers underreport autistic traits in their female pupils (Posserud et al. 2006).”
The Changing Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2016, neutral): “Although this pronounced sex disparity is found in all populations studied and has been historically consistent, differences in symptom presentation in females and potential attendant diagnostic biases (54), even though unlikely to fully explain observed differences, are worthy of additional investi”
Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism (2016, background): “, 2016), unless there are concurrent behavioural or cognitive challenges (Dworzynski et al., 2012).”
Disentangling the heterogeneity of autism spectrum disorder through genetic findings (2014, neutral): “55 Additionally, females with ASD tend to show greater cog nitive impairment, with the male:female ratio being close to 1:1 in severely intellectually disabled populations.”
Sex/Gender Differences and Autism: Setting the Scene for Future Research (2015, background): “Given similar levels of autistic features, males are more easily diagnosed with autism than females,(60) who require more concurrent behavioral/cognitive problems to receive a clinical diagnosis of autism.(61) These may be related”
Autistic girls and school exclusion: Perspectives of students and their parents (2017, background): “, 2016) and a lack of behavioural problems (Dworzynski et al., 2012; Hiller et al., 2014; Mandy et al., 2012).”
Friendship motivations, challenges and the role of masking for girls with autism in contrasting school settings (2018, background): “…findings indicated that many girls would undertake masking behaviours, reflecting findings by Attwood (2006), Dean, Harwood, and Kasari (2016), Dworzynski et al. (2012) and Kopp and Gillberg (1992) who described a tendency of girls with autism to imitate others in social interactions or…”