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We need more research about how autism impacts women and our mental health. I feel like almost every autism study used men/boys for research and it's so frustrating bc this impacts us girls in such a different way .
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Anonymous 5w

That’s exactly why I’m going into psych!! I wanna study autism in women/girls/afab folk, as well as the comorbidity between autism, ptsd/cptsd, and substance abuse/addiction. There is some research on it, but not nearly enough, and not enough in the direction of treatment and healing and actually helping autistic folk (who often times don’t benefit from traditional forms of treatment, especially if they have trauma and struggle with addiction)

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Anonymous 5w

THIS!!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

We need more people like you!!! Best of luck in all your studies 🫶

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