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Signs of autism in women and girls…   Research shows that autism in adult women and girls can look different than men and boys. According to the DSM-5-TR, the American Psychiatric Association’s most … delays often struggle to get an autism diagnosis, receive a diagnosis later in life, or get misdiagnosed. According to the CDC, girls are 4 times less likely to be diagnosed with autism than boys. On average, they also receive a diagnosis almost a year later than boys—at age 5.6 for girls versus 4.8 for boys. Those who do receive a diagnosis are more likely to have co-occurring ID , epilepsy and anxiety . Masking in autistic women and …