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It would seem to me that masking works to a point (towards the "highly functioning" side of the spectrum), and once you get to the ways in which autism blocks a
by Jare 6y ago
It would seem to me that masking works to a point (towards the "highly functioning" side of the spectrum), and once you get to the ways in which autism blocks ability to perform certain common behaviours and activities (e.g. non-verbal), the gender percentages should get closer again, because there's no masking to hide them or social expectations that they match. Is this the case?
- nicoburns 6y agoI've seen research that suggests that estrogen could mitigate symptoms of autism, which could also explain a gender difference: - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193073/ - https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/estrogen-reverses-autism-like-features-in-mice/ https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/estrogen-reverses-autism-l...
- SubiculumCode 6y agoIt should be noted that this research sample, as opposed to many autism samples, includes autism with non-verbal, and severe intellectual disability phenotypes of autism, phenotypes not always captured in neuroimaging research of adults due to compliance issues (We collect neuroimaging data while participants sleep in the scanner).