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For that reason, women tend to get autism diagnoses later in life, or may be misdiagnosed with other similar-presenting disorders like anxiety, depression or other mental health disorders.
Both males and females with autism deal with the same core symptom, but when those symptoms are mixed with ideas of gender, they can offer very different lived experiences for females than their male counterparts. The profile of autism may change as more is understood about females, whose autism may go undiagnosed. [14]
Quotes from famous people with depression “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.” ... ‘I can’t do this. I can’t go ...
Approximately 8 in 10 people with autism have a mental health problem in their lifetime, in comparison to 1 in 4 of the general population. [132] [133] [134] A 2019 meta-analysis found autistic people to be four times more likely to have depression than non-autistic people, with approximately 40% of autistic adults having depression. [135]
Additionally, reduced affect can be symptomatic of autism, schizophrenia, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, depersonalization-derealization disorder, [2] [3] [4] schizoid personality disorder or brain damage. [5] It may also be a side effect of certain medications (e.g., antipsychotics [6] and antidepressants [7]).
For people with treatment-resistant depression, those who received CBT plus medication were three times more likely to get at least a 50 percent improvement in their symptoms than those who ...
Mind-blindness is defined as a state where the ToM has not been developed in an individual. [1] According to the theory, non-autistic people can make automatic interpretations of events taking into consideration the mental states of people, their desires, and beliefs.
Singer's 1998 thesis Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autistic Spectrum, [33] wherein she had first coined the term neurodiversity, was republished as Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea in September 2017. [34] Pablo is a British pre-school children's TV program about an autistic boy. It was first aired in October 2017.