The annual St Thomas’ Christmas Tree Festival is in full swing and Salisbury Soroptimists are regular contributors. This year our Women’s Health Group took the lead, creating a tree to raise awareness of the difficulties austistic women have in getting a diagnosis and therefore having to mask their condition.
Classic autism diagnosis has been based on the symptoms typically displayed by males, so women face a challenge in being recognised and offered support.
We hope that visitors to the festival will pause and learn something from our tree.
