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The Lost Girls of Autism

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I'm just over half way through this book by Gina Rippon, has anyone else read it? If so how did you get on with it? It's bringing up a lot of stuff for me about how I was when I was younger, like how much I masked and cammoflaged, how whilst I wouldn't exactly prepare a script for being with others, but I would read a lot of stories and then get confused when people didn't act the same way in real life as they did in books.

Whilst I didn't and don't have special interests, so much of my behaviour was repetitive, things like embroidering table mats, they all had to have exactly the same patterns of stitches if not I couldn't cope and would get really upset and aggitated. How all my toy farm and riding stable animals had to go in the same places, no dolls were allowed in my dolls house, it was MY house and everyting had to be arranged in exactly the same way.

I think I'm enjoying this book although it is a bit triggering, but I think in a good way.

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  • I've just been reading about differences in the brains of people with autism, whilst there are many similarities between autistic brains, different parts seem to be affected in different people. I've been reading about Kanner brains, Kanner being an early researcher on autism, Kanner brains seem to be high on systemising and less so on the social parts, whereas Cammelion brains seem to be more active in social areas. Cammelions are more likely to be female with high masking and far more worry about fitting in with any group they're around, the masking seems to be so effective that many women don't pass the standard autism assessments as assessors are asking the wrong questions. This research has largely been done through fMRI scans and the numbers of women included in studies have historically been small, often no women are included at all in any autism studies, which could be why autism is still seen as predominantly male and male brain orrientated.

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  • I've just been reading about differences in the brains of people with autism, whilst there are many similarities between autistic brains, different parts seem to be affected in different people. I've been reading about Kanner brains, Kanner being an early researcher on autism, Kanner brains seem to be high on systemising and less so on the social parts, whereas Cammelion brains seem to be more active in social areas. Cammelions are more likely to be female with high masking and far more worry about fitting in with any group they're around, the masking seems to be so effective that many women don't pass the standard autism assessments as assessors are asking the wrong questions. This research has largely been done through fMRI scans and the numbers of women included in studies have historically been small, often no women are included at all in any autism studies, which could be why autism is still seen as predominantly male and male brain orrientated.

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