Dr. Laura Anderson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 108: Dr. Laura Anderson on Gender Noncomformity and Differently Wired Kids · 15 May 2018 podcast
That they that they don't even really
They don't respond to the queuing and they also get kind of confused by it.
They don't really understand.
They're like, no, I don't know why this is hard for the rest of you.
You know, I'm a boy or or I'm a this.
And we and we do know in terms of numbers and pre frequency, it is also suggesting that there may or may not be some link to gender and testosterone, is that within the autism community, currently.
It's more often that you see folks assigned female at birth.
Who also have autism that are presenting with gender expansive stuff.
We see more of that within the autism community than we do folks assigned male at birth, who then later identify as trans and have autism.
So all we know is that there's trends related to gender and autism, and they're just starting to piece together what that could be.
You know, and it's one of those things where people
Say, why are we so worried about why?
And I think it's a human need to kind of be curious and to wonder what could the links be?
So they, you know, while they're figuring all that out, in the in the meantime, I think having a child who is on the autism spectrum, one of the biggest questions parents have is, well, how do I know this is really a gender thing and not just the next Thomas the train fixation or
Um, you know, dinosaurs, whatever, Harry Potter, extraordinary, what you know, that specialized interest that so often comes along with autism.
And again, there isn't an overnight answer to that.
What that takes is knowing your kid and talking to a specialist who can really help you tease that out.
You know, how long ago did it start?
Was it tied to puberty?
Does it shift during those times of the month?
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