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Can anyone explain why I’m the opposite?

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I’ve recently seen so many posts/articles online about girls with autism behaving really well at school and then having meltdowns at home as a result of being exhausted from masking all day. I was the opposite and I just don’t know why. I was awful at school - like excluded/suspended multiple times from year 8 onwards. But at home I was literally an angel child, so much so that my parents never believed the school when they would report what happened each day. 

Can anyone offer any explanation as to why this may be?

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  • Because I think that the "boys" and "girls" categories are nonsense. 

    There is a kind of autism that is gets noticed and diagnosed, and there is a kind of autism that hides away to be safe, and there are all kinds of autisms in between!  Not that an autism is a seperate thing, but whatever.

    I work in a school and there is one boy who displays what many would think of as a female presentation, so much so that the professionals who came in to assess him weren't sure if there was anything there.  There's also a girl with a more traditional male presentation, who is loud and demand avoidant, who was dismissed for a while as having a bad attitude.  Neither are yet diagnosed, but I can see it quite clearly.

    Also I'm non-binary and screw gender stereotypes. ;) 

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  • Because I think that the "boys" and "girls" categories are nonsense. 

    There is a kind of autism that is gets noticed and diagnosed, and there is a kind of autism that hides away to be safe, and there are all kinds of autisms in between!  Not that an autism is a seperate thing, but whatever.

    I work in a school and there is one boy who displays what many would think of as a female presentation, so much so that the professionals who came in to assess him weren't sure if there was anything there.  There's also a girl with a more traditional male presentation, who is loud and demand avoidant, who was dismissed for a while as having a bad attitude.  Neither are yet diagnosed, but I can see it quite clearly.

    Also I'm non-binary and screw gender stereotypes. ;) 

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