An article by psychiatrists Meng-Chaun Lai and Simon Baron-Cohen, published in the medical journal The Lancet, has proposed that an entire generation of Autistic people were misdiagnosed as having personality disorders.80 Unsurprisingly, they propose that most of the misdiagnosed were marginalized women. Usually, I find a lot of problems with Baron-Cohen’s work; he has long been an advocate for the view that Autism is best understood as an “extremely male brain.”81 Yet in this research, he seems to acknowledge that the reason many women are not diagnosed as Autistic is because they’re labeled
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