Gender and Autism – Autistic people what gender (or sex) are you? Or those o your autistic loved ones?
Autism Acceptance
Sorry an odd question but let me explain.
As some of my more regular readers know that I have a , now, nine year old autistic son and also I spend nearly a decade of my life working in healthcare survey research.
This has given me a huge distrust of any government supplied data. (For lots of reasons, in fact, but tardiness (by our governments) does come into it).
So one of the figures which interested me at the moment are that of gender and autistic diagnosis. The number thrown out a lot is that only 20% of people diagnosed with autism are female.
Is this true?
To find out I have decided to run my own poll on the subject which you can find below.
It would be great if you could take part either on your own behalf or those of a loved one.
Thanks very much in advance.
PS I am aware of the developments in the autistic transgender community and I have tried to cover to some extent in the possible answers. I appreciate such endeavours are quite good enough so I would be grateful if you could share any thoughts you many have regarding definitions of autistic transpeople in the comments section below! Again thanks.
As far as we know, my husband and me (female) are both autistic.
AllyssaPainter No worries
Really need advice my 14yr old was diagnosed with ASD last yr but the past 12 months he’s become aggressive and hits himself is anyone else going through this feel alone xx
I tutor two autistic children. They are both boys, but they have a little sister who is also autistic. So that’s three in one family, two male, one female. I also have a friend whose son is autistic. So of the four autistic people I am around, only one is female. I did not answer your poll since I had four answers, rather than just one. I hope this helps.