"The standard excuse for this is that women and girls are “better at masking”. But autism is not, in my experience, an invisible condition. It is an illegible condition. When an autistic woman does not read as autistic, she rarely reads as ordinary. She reads as insane or perhaps evil. I spent decades worrying that I was both."
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