Renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon reveals why medical science has betrayed women and girls with autism, and the new research that’s changing the story.

The history of autism is male. When autistic girls meet doctors, they are often misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, personality disorders, or are missed altogether. Many women only discover they have the condition when they are much older, missing decades of support and understanding. Autism’s ‘male spotlight’ means we are only now starting to redress this profound injustice.

In this groundbreaking conversation, renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored and misunderstood for so long. Generations of researchers, convinced autism was a male problem, simply didn’t bother looking for it in women. But it is now becoming increasingly clear that autism is different for women and girls, and that camouflaging – hiding autistic traits to fit in – is far more widespread than we thought. Urgent and insightful, this conversation is a clarion call for society to recognise the full spectrum of autistic experience.

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