Interview: Why Autistic Women Have Been Overlooked for Decades

Image credit: Tara Winstead via Pexels. Interview article by Sara Talpos. Undark – April 25, 2025.

It’s been more than 30 years since the award-winning film “Rain Man,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, put a spotlight on autism — or, more specifically, on a specific type of autism characterized by social awkwardness and isolation and typically affecting males. Yet as far back as the 1980s, at least one prominent autism researcher wondered whether autism’s male skew might simply reflect the fact that autistic females were, for some reason, going undiagnosed. Over the past decade, spurred by the personal testimonies of late-diagnosed women, autism researchers have increasingly examined this question. […]

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