{"id":1937,"date":"2013-08-26T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T05:00:27","slug":"autism-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Autism and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism is around four to one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is that really true?<\/li>\n<li>Is research biased to diagnose boys and overlook girls?<\/li>\n<li>Are girls able to camouflage the signs of autism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>male and female brains are different anyway, male&#8217;s brain has more tissue volume<\/li>\n<li>girls with the condition could be more stigmatised<\/li>\n<li>it could be harder for girls to get diagnosed<\/li>\n<li>research focuses more on boys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MRI screening showed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>female&#8217;s brain with autism is closer to the male&#8217;s brain versus female without the condition<\/li>\n<li>however, male&#8217;s brain with autism didn&#8217;t show that much of a difference<\/li>\n<li>available information is male-biased<\/li>\n<li>the way autism could manifested is different in males and females<\/li>\n<li>therefore, what applies for males doesn&#8217;t necessarily apply for females<\/li>\n<li>studying autism in females should get more attention<\/li>\n<li>girls adapt easier to the condition which could be the reason behind masking the condition<\/li>\n<li>girls could show signs of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders as a price for masking their condition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the article in details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-23613816\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism is around four to one. Is that really true? Is research biased to diagnose boys and overlook girls? Are girls able to camouflage the signs of autism? Research found that: male and female brains are different anyway, male&#8217;s brain has more tissue volume girls with the &#8230; <a title=\"Autism and Gender\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1937\" aria-label=\"Read more about Autism and Gender\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,86,171,77,170,92,129],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-diagnosis","tag-female-brain","tag-health","tag-male-brain","tag-research","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}