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Most Autistic People Have Normal Brain Anatomy – Neuroskeptic |...
Neurosceptic has a good article up about an important new study of brain structure and autism. The study found very few differences between the brain anatomy of people with autism and people without...
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At the Intersection of Gender and Autism – Part I
George Davis:“At five, I wanted to be a boy” – the viewpoint of a woman with Aspergers. This is a great essay with interesting insights into gender and autism. The essay is featured in the book...
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At the Intersection of Gender and Autism – Part 2
George Davis:“Perhaps rather than extreme male brains, autistic women have extreme individual brains. As a group we seem to be less influenced than typical women by the roles society expects us to...
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At the Intersection of Gender and Autism – Part 3
George Davis:The final part of a great series on gender and autism from the point of view of a woman with autism. One thing I found interesting was the ways autism may be hidden with girls. For...
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The development of gender identity in the autistic child – Extremely Brief...
A 1981 study of autistic children found that gender identity was related to “mental age, chronological age, communication skills, physical skills, social skills, self-help skills and academic/cognitive...
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Case study: cross-gender preoccupations in two male children with autism
This is a 1996 case study of two boys with autism who had cross-gender interests, but probably did not have gender dysphoria. Both boys liked dolls, although the way they played with them was not...
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Review of Gender identity disorder in a girl with autism – a case report
This is a 1997 case of a Swedish teenager who had autism as well as symptoms of gender dysphoria, selective mutism, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Treatment with clomipramine decreased her...
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Gender identity problems in autistic children – Review of a case study
This is a case report of two Turkish boys with autism and gender dysphoria. Unlike this earlier study of two boys with autism, the boys in this study verbalized a clear desire to be a girl. In the...
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Eleven-year follow up of boy with Asperger’s syndrome and comorbid gender...
This is a follow-up case study of a Japanese boy with both Asperger’s syndrome and gender dysphoria. It is the first long-term follow-up case study we have for a child with autism and gender dysphoria....
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Review of Clinical Management of Youth with Gender Dysphoria in Vancouver –...
This article is a report on health care provided to youth with gender dysphoria at a clinic in British Colombia, Canada. I’m going to focus on just the demographics in this post and do another post...
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