The Lost Girls of Autism - How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story

''A truly fascinating must-read'' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell Women

''Powerful and well-researched. The Lost Girls of Autism shines a much-needed spotlight on a critical issue'' - Dr Maureen Dunne, author of The Neurodiversity Edge

The history of autism is male. It is time for women and girls to enter the spotlight.

When autistic girls meet clinicians, they are often misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, personality disorders - or receive no diagnosis at all. Autism-s -male spotlight- means we are only now starting to redress this profound injustice.

In The Lost Girls of Autism, renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored for so long. Generations of researchers, convinced autism was a male problem, simply didn-t bother looking for it in women. But it is now becoming increasingly clear that many aut