Did you know that boys are 10 times more likely to be referred for an autism diagnosis than girls? Or that boys who are referred for an autism diagnosis are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed as autistic as are girls who have been referred? But this shouldn’t be surprising, as ‘autism is a male problem’, right? Almost every autism-related website, research paper or journal article tells us that autism occurs much more frequently in boys, on average about four times as often, although ratios of 15:1 have sometimes been quoted.
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