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May. 12th, 2016 04:58 pm I found a few interesting articles lately that I'd like to share. One is the prevalence of gender variance among people on the autism spectrum and the prevalence of being neuro-atypical among people with gender variance.
Living Between Genders - Trans people with autism express a gender at odds with societal expectation
"Another group reported last year that more than half of 166 young people referred to the Gender Identity Development Service, a specialized British National Health Service clinic, in London between December 2011 and June 2013 had features of autism, as measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale, a screening tool for autism. Of that number, nearly half of those who scored in the severe range had not previously been assessed for autism."
I was telling my coworker, the mother of a twelve year old with autism, about this and we speculated together about how one might mask the other. Does you kid like satin slips because they're pretty or because of sensitivity to how things feel? Her son isn't gender variant as far as she knows. My son is gender variant and although he hasn't been diagnosed with autism he isn't totally neuro-typical.
"Another group reported last year that more than half of 166 young people referred to the Gender Identity Development Service, a specialized British National Health Service clinic, in London between December 2011 and June 2013 had features of autism, as measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale, a screening tool for autism. Of that number, nearly half of those who scored in the severe range had not previously been assessed for autism."
I was telling my coworker, the mother of a twelve year old with autism, about this and we speculated together about how one might mask the other. Does you kid like satin slips because they're pretty or because of sensitivity to how things feel? Her son isn't gender variant as far as she knows. My son is gender variant and although he hasn't been diagnosed with autism he isn't totally neuro-typical.
