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Girls are often diagnosed later than boys, so miss out on opportunities for early support. Girls express autism in a way that doesn\u2019t align with the diagnostic criteria.\n\nStereotypes and expectations from girls play a considerable role in the misdiagnosis that occurs when they show signs of autism, Girls also learn how to mask their symptoms at a very young age to blend in better.\n\nMasking is when a person hides or camouflages their neurodiverse traits and replaces them with behaviors that might appear more neurotypical. Recent research points to females being more able to mask their autistic signs than males.\n\nAutism in girls is overlooked because from a very young age a variety of expectations are set on girls, which will then lead to these girls masking to blend in and camouflage better. Because unlike boys, who tend to befriend smaller numbers of people, girls will try to blend into large numbers of friends, so that they are not highlighted and can learn to mask while not having to interact a lot.\n\nA lot of signs of ASD are very prominent in girls but they are overlooked sadly because of \u201cit just being how girls are\u201d. 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