Autism and Girls
Fathering Autism
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Fathering Autism | A Scientist Wrestles With the Realities of His Daughter’s Illness
Shankar Vedantam | Washington Post
In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube’s ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no […]
Girls and Autism II
Friday, February 1st, 2008‘Underdiagnosed’ Girls With Autism Struggle to Fit In
John Donvan | ABCNews.com
At first glance, 8-year-old Kaede Sakai is a typical first grader. She’s a smart student, and most of the time she is kind and cordial in class. But recess is an exercise in frustration for her because no matter how hard she tries to fit […]
Girls and Autism
Sunday, January 27th, 2008When autism wears pink
Carol Azizian | Flint Journal First Edition | MLive.com
Rachael Johnson, fashionably dressed in a brown, polka-dot top with matching earrings, arrives home from her first day of high school distraught.
She’s cried all the way home on the bus. Between sobs, Rachael, 16, tells her dad why she’s upset - her younger sister, […]