Autism in the 21st Century – missing the girls.

In the 1940s, Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger separately identified a set of unusual behaviours in certain children, including strange and focussed obsessions and repetitive movements, but mainly characterised by a lack of social interaction or ‘aloofness’.  The term ‘autism’ was coined to capture this aspect.  Today, the ‘diagnostic’ term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) covers […]

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Autism in the 21st Century – missing the girls.

In the 1940s, Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger separately identified a set of unusual behaviours in certain children, including strange and focussed obsessions and repetitive movements, but mainly characterised by a lack of social interaction or ‘aloofness’.  The term ‘autism’ was coined to capture this aspect.  Today, the ‘diagnostic’ term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) covers […]

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