The Signs of Female Autism that get Missed

Autism is often missed, especially in females who don't show as typical autism. This leads to many missed diagnoses, mental health issues and more adults being late diagnosed with autism when damage is already done.
These are some of the signs of my autism that were missed when I was a child.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - 03:40 Making friends with autism
03:41 - 04:38 Mental health and autism
04:40 - 05:45 Female autism and masking
05:46 - 10:00 Child autistic struggles
10:01 - 12:42 Autistic burnout
12:43 - 15:40 Autisum extreme empathy
15:41 - 17:27 Outro

[@tmc115]

I’m glad that you mentioned that about people think that autistic people don’t understand emotions. I understand things very well but it’s difficult for me to verbalize. When I do, it’s usually very painful. But I can talk to someone and I could say I think this is what you feel about me, and That is correct judging by how they react to me. And people usually do not have a very favorable opinion of me right off the bat because I like being to myself. I’ve wrote a lot about autism where it feels like a violation if somebody enters a room or forces, eye Contact or forces conversation. And I’m like yeah I feel like that all the time but I was very punished and shamed for it. So it’s always in my head. You gotta talk to people you gotta make people happy. And then I’m suffering for it.

[@tmc115]

And I am actually in the middle of an autistic burnout, I think. I can’t say for certain that I have autism, but I have use the word burn out probably at least half a dozen times in the last few days. But I’ve learned how to push through it. The things that I need to do to protect myself but also keep going. Normal people just don’t get how you don’t wanna talk to people constantly and they feel like I’m snubbing them. But I have this feeling like if I am pushed too far I will go insane like a wild animal. And they don’t understand that I just have to shut myself down.

[@Mental_health_an_Molly]

Thank you so much for sharing this and I’m so sorry you have been through so much !! I think getting a diagnosis should always be your choice and only if you think it will help you but getting mine definitely helped me once I was ready for it and they can also unpack and discover a lot more then just autism when your ready to open up and it might give you some skills and make it easier for you to be more gentle with yourself. Your not alone in your struggle 🩵

[@tmc115]

I am about to turn 38 and I struggle with the idea of getting diagnosed. I’m not sure if I should or not because I am extremely high functioning. And another thing that you didn’t mention is that not everyone is born with autism. I know I wasn’t born with it I wasextremely social and outgoing and I had lots of friends until I was about seven. And then I got into an extremely emotionally abusive house, and when I did my research, I found out that that’s actually a common response to extreme emotional abuse to develop autism.