Dispelling common myths about autism: facts and fallacies – take our quiz!
Neurodiversity Celebration Week (17th-23rd March) is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. To celebrate this much-needed campaign, we invited Gina Rippon, renowned brain scientist and author of The Lost Girls of Autism, to test how much you know about the autistic experience.
About The Lost Girls of Autism by Gina Rippon
Autistic girls are too often misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, personality disorders – or receive no diagnosis at all. Only now are we starting to redress this profound injustice.
In The Lost Girls of Autism, renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into why female autism has been systematically ignored for so long, with generations of researchers simply not bothering to explore it, convinced autism was a male problem only. Yet it is increasingly clear that autistic women and girls often do not fit the traditional, male, model of autism. Instead, they camouflage or mask, hiding their autistic traits to accommodate a society that shuns them.
Urgent and insightful, The Lost Girls of Autism is an examination of how sexism has biased our understanding. Informed by the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, it is a clarion call for society to recognize the full spectrum of the autistic experience – and better support women and girls as a result.
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