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Puzzling girls
Rachel Brooks
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What are the questions?
• Are we missing girls with ASD?
• How do we diagnose them?
• Does it matter if they are missed?
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Prevelance
• ASD 0.6 -1%• Male : Female
3-4 : 1 (school aged children population cohorts)
5-14 : 1 in clinical settings
(6:1 (ish) for our tertiary clinic)• Suggests girls with low normal to above normal
IQ are not being diagnosed
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ASD and the Extreme Male Brain
• Simon Baron-Cohen
• Postulates that the ASD brain is an extreme of the male brain
• Females with ASD have a more male brain than those without ASD
• Foetal testosterone?
• X and Y linked theories?
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Why else ?
• Girls are more motivated to learn to conform socially and have better imitation skills to ‘pretend to be normal’
• Diagnostic instruments are unable to detect more subtle ways ASD presents in females
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Are neuro typical girls and boys intrinsically different?
• Baron-Cohen would say so, boys are systemisers, girls are empathisers
• Wing – general population females better language skills, poorer visuo-spacial and maths skills
• Girls better at decoding facial expressions and non verbal cues, empathising and theory of mind
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• Girls build relationships by sharing thoughts and emotions
• Boys build relationships on object/activity related themes
• Girls world is definitely different to boy world!
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Diagnostic instruments
• All designed to pick up ASD and calibrated for the original male phenotype of ASD
• Girls with ASD may not be picked up by current screening and diagnostic tools
• Little research in this area
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ASSQ-REV
• Lack of a best friend B>G• Interacts mostly with younger children G>B
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ASSQ-REV
• Avoids demands G>B
Why?
Parents less demanding of boys?
Girls with ASD may meet criteria for PDA
Higher co-morbid anxiety in girls
Girls avoid passively (ignore, etc,) and this is effective
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ASSQ-REV
• Has a different voice /speech G>B
• Not robotic
• Unusual, high pitched, hoarse
childish
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ASSQ-REV
• Carefree or over meticulous with physical appearance and dress
• Difficulties completing daily activities because of compulsive repetitions
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Girls special interests
• Animals, foreign cultures, fairy tale figures, famous people, comic strip personalities
• Painting , pottery, collecting, reading, beauty products, clothes
• Horse riding,
• Ice dancing
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Play and imagination
• Is it imagination or re-enactment?
• There may be a script
• The girl needs to be in control
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Kopp and Gillberg 2010
A girl who• Avoids demands• Is very determined• Who interacts (mostly) with younger children• Who is carefree or over meticulous with physical
appearance and dress• Who acts or lives different parts (animals, TV stars)• Who had a different voice or speech• Who often has intense girl-oriented interests
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Risks of non identification
• Bullying
• Vulnerability
• Depression,
• Negative self perception
• Self harm
• Anorexia (18-23% of girls with anorexia also present with signs of Asperger syndrome – Gillberg and Billstedt, 2000)