julia guimarães [珠丽雅]

think we need to be very careful about dubbing anything as ‘male’ or ‘female’. Not least because we would be short-changing any autistic males or gender variant individuals whose autism presents in more chameleon-like fashion, in exactly the same way that females were short-changed for so long.

After ADOS administration, twenty-five of the community-diagnosed females (50 per cent of the original

Guilt itself engenders negative feelings, and negative feelings in and of themselves also engender guilt. It is that deadly combination which pulls us all down and creates such widespread illness and unhappiness. The guilt is so omnipresent that no matter what we are doing we feel somewhere in our mind that we “should” be doing something else. We

no momento em que desistimos de resistir à gravidade, iniciam-se os pinçamentos, as contraturas e toda sorte de patologias que nos arrastará para um envelhecimento precoce.

there have often been references to gendered differences in socialization, speculating that a greater emphasis on social niceties – on compliance and conformity – produced the ‘quieter’ form of autism allegedly more characteristic of autistic females. So much quieter, indeed, that it often fails to register as autism at all.