How come there are so many books about Asperger's and Girls?

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How come there are so many books written by women about Asperger's and Girls/women?

1 ) Asperger's and Girls
2 ) I am AspienWoman: The Unique Characteristics, Traits, and Gifts of Adult Females on the Autism Spectrum
3 ) Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
4 ) Safety Skills for Asperger Women: How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life
5 ) 22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know
6 ) I am Aspiengirl: The Unique Characteristics, Traits and Gifts of Females on the Autism Spectrum
7 ) Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
8 ) Six-Word Lessons on Female Asperger Syndrome: 100 Lessons to Understand and Support Girls and Women with Asperger's

and practically nothing on men accept books written for women on how to love Aspie men?

Why do women feel the need to write so much about females with Asperger's, and men don't?

What are your views?

I expect part of the reason is because there is a growing consensus that girls with autism have been overlooked and under treated by the medical establishment. Also because there is a demand for the books and they are selling.

This is something to complain about? Because it sounds like a complaint. Are you kidding me? It's about bloody TIME there was more out there about Asperger's and females. Are you kidding me?

It's obvious that Asperger's Syndrome/HFA/Level One Autism is under-reported in females--to the point where there's about a 4-1 ratio in incidence in favor of men.

As reflected in the membership here in WrongPlanet, there's certainly NOT 4 times as many men as there are women here.

Probably because there are thousands of books about Asperger's and if even a tenth of them are about girls, that would still be hundreds of books.

The rest of them are mostly about boys. Even if they have a gender-neutral title, they're still mostly about boys.

I'd like to know how come there are so many books about kids with aspergers. The majority of them are about kids and parenting and are of no help to adult aspies. Remember we spend about three quarters of our lives as adults. About three quarters of the population is adult.

Because autism is different in females than in males. Most stuff you read about autism is mostly about males and so many females would fly under the radar and be diagnosed with other conditions instead like BPD, anxiety, depression, Bipolar.

I think this is more about awareness and about how different autism is in girls.

One thing I have on my mind is I wonder how many autism girls failed autism tests and actually passed as normal on them so the doctor said they didn't have autism?

I was diagnosed at 10, and no misdiagnosis or co morbidity. Am I lucky or unlucky?

Or is it because, unlike most female aspies, I don't pretend to be sociable or appropriate to begin with? Hence I didn't flew under the radar.
Instead of acting 4 to 8 hours a day as a part of my everyday life, I ended up with hate, anger and frustration towards conformity instead of some odd anxiety-induced motivation to 'fit in' with a persona whose sole purpose is to please the NTs? Sorry if this offends anyone...

Ended up with fulfillments of social 'wants', that I conclude that it's something I don't actually want?
And the lack of clumsiness and more physical prowess is just a bonus.


I really wanna know if I'm not the only one... I saw articles and some book previews, that ends up my question. Only a few traits that fits my description on what describes a female aspie. And cultures aside, I could barely relate to any of them.
But then again, it's a spectrum.

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There's a great demand for that type of literature.

Up until recently, unless you were REALLY low functioning, girls almost never got diagnosed with Aspergers because it was viewed as mostly a male issue.

My daughter's friend only was diagnosed at age 11. Why? It wasn't until her sensory issues and meltdowns became such a PITA for everyone else, that they decide to look into it.

Before her friend was diagnosed with allergies, anxiety, OCD, and ODD. All of those diagnosis were replaced with ASD.

Also it is more socially acceptable for a woman to be...

Overly sensitive to things that you touch, taste or smell

Collections. .that sort of burns out with boys around age 12. Girls can collect all sorts of stuff and no one bats an eye.

Being socially ditzy. I think women get a bigger pass on a social mistake made, and can smooth it over better.

Meltdowns...a woman can have a full bore screaming melt down (with reason), and people passing off as hormonal.

I don't have an issue with the books, because ASD was so over looked in women.

Because females with autism are so much more interesting and complicated than us socially inept autistic males.

It's probably something to do with the legions of autism moms and selling books.

A father on the parent board posted this YouTube link

https://youtu.be/WPd_ixQSo7s

It a documentary about girls with autism.

Girls do present differently. Had those girls lived around my area, those behaviors would be labeled ODD, OCD, ADHD, GAD and SocAD. Because they seem sort of "chatty" and can make friends (whatever that means), Autism wouldn't ever be considered.

The thing is NT teen girls do obsess over stuff. They can be moody, weepy and little drama queens sometimes. The problem is the specialist will just see the above and punt it to mental health. If you look just a little more closely, all those behaviors and issues are pure ASD related.

I really did enjoy the video, and it is an eye opener how different it autism is in girls.

A question for people in the UK, would the school be private pay or funding by the government? In the states, that place would most likely be private pay and only the six figure income plus types could afford it.

Because supposedly, it is soooo hard for us ladies to get a diagnosis. I just went to the psychiatrist and said I can't relate to most people, especially other women. He then asked me if I have another gender identity and I said that I feel comfortable with being myself. He then inquired me if I wanna do testing for autism. I said sure and then got diagnosed a couple weeks later.