Hormonal Changes and Autistic Girls & Women*
Michelle Garnett and Tony Attwood *The terms female, girl and woman, when used in this article, refer to individuals assigned female at birth. Our current understanding of how hormonal changes impact autistic individuals, and whether this differs from the impact for non-autistic individuals is still emerging. Because the female presentation of autism was unknown until recently, most research was conducted with autistic males. Thus,…
