Right now, more boys and men get diagnosed with autism than girls and women.
Boys are diagnosed with autism about 3 times as much as girls.
But that doesn’t mean that there are more autistic boys than autistic girls.
The tests doctors use to diagnose autism were made just by looking at boys.
Doctors decided what autism means by looking at boys.
This means that a lot of autistic women and girls get left out.
They are autistic, but doctors don’t notice.
Plus, autistic people are lots of different genders.
There are more genders than just boys and girls.
But nobody is counting people who aren’t boys or girls.
Since we are missing so many people, the autism diagnosisWhen a doctor says you are autistic. numbers are wrong.
We don’t know what the real numbers are.
What we do know is that people of all genders can be autistic.