Autism in females shows itself differently to autism in males, it tends to be a lot less obvious because the traits that they display are unlike those displayed

Autism in females shows itself differently to autism in males, it tends to be a lot less obvious because the traits that they display are unlike those displayed by autistic males. Further they tend not to cause academic issues and as such are not picked up by schools. I am no expert but I have a friend who has an autistic daughter and both her and her partner are child psychologists and we had a discussion about it only 2 nights ago, which was the point that I learned that one of their daughters was on the spectrum (she is approx 6 years old) comparing this to another friend of mine who has an autistic son and the signs that he was on the spectrum were apparent even at the age of 2.5 years old.