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- Title
- Recognising Autistic women: A minority within a minority
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Evidence is emerging from the Western world that, when seeking assistance, Autistic women are remaining unrecognised, or are being misdiagnosed with mental illness by the clinical professionals they approach. However, as a result of their relative invisibility there is very limited academic literature on the occurrence of the mis(sed)diagnosis of Autistic women, as these women only draw statistical interest when they eventually become formally diagnosed. This thesis provides for an exploratio...
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- Research paper
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- Thesis
- Thesis level
- Masters
- Date created
- 2020
- Creator
- Hefferon, Kyle Anne
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13417
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- autism / women / adults / misdiagnosis / mental disorder / disability
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