{"id":852,"date":"2026-10-18T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/?page_id=852"},"modified":"2026-10-21T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:47:27","slug":"taking-off-the-mask-revealing-autistic-women","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/club-projects\/taking-off-the-mask-revealing-autistic-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking off the Mask &#8211; Revealing Autistic Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"wysiwyg-outer  inline section\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t <p>\u201cIt is important that autistic women and girls receive a diagnosis (or recognise that they are autistic) so they can understand themselves and access support. However, because of stereotyped ideas about what autism looks like and who can be autistic, many autistic women and girls struggle to get a diagnosis, receive a diagnosis late in life or are misdiagnosed with conditions other than autism.<\/p>\n<p>Autistic characteristics in women and girls may differ from those of other autistic people. They might seem to have fewer social difficulties than autistic men and boys, but this could be because they are more likely to \u2018mask\u2019 their autistic traits (though the stress of doing so can result in anxiety and overwhelm). At school, autistic girls may be more likely to be part of a friendship group and this could be a reason that teachers don\u2019t notice their differences. They may also be missed if their academic achievement masks difficulties they are facing in other areas\u201d (National Autistic Society).<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nPrinting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank Wiltshire Council for funding the initial print run. <\/p>\n<p>We will be looking for sponsors to fund printing in the future. If you or anyone else you know might be interested in sponsoring the resource pack please get in touch via sarumsoropts@gmail.com<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"parent":781,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"page-themes":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852\/revisions\/945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page-themes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page-themes?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}