The Challenges of Autism Diagnosis

The path to diagnosis has lots of stages. We have some people coming for first autism diagnosis in their 70s. But we mustn't fall into stereotypes because then there will be other people, maybe those who are camouflaging and you need to dig deeper. I could give you an example if you'd like. A woman that I met who told me she was autistic. When we first met,. I couldn't see any signs of autism, but of course, I listened to her. Interestingly, she had been to acting school and she said that was partly to know how to act like everybody else. After about an hour my children could have diagnosed her. So the camouflage the masking,