Melissa Neff

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 060a: A Deep Dive Into Assessments, Diagnoses, and Labels, with Melissa Neff, PhD · 2 Dec 2022 podcast

So I think in order to really have a solid assessment, you've gotta have all of these pieces in place.

That's such a sort of wide-ranging question.

Can I limit that to sort of autism and ADHD?

Yep.

Perfect.

Okay.

So I have been seeing an enormous rise in girls with ADHD and nonverbal learning disorder in my practice.

And they slip through the cracks most of the time.

And I think a lot of the reason why girls on the spectrum don't get diagnosed, there's there's a lot of things sort of going into that.

But one thing we know about girls' brains, they've done some brain imaging studies of girls and boys on the spectrum.

And it seems like girls have a little bit better of an ability to fake social skills and to mimic social skills.

Where oftentimes with boys, it's harder for them to I don't know if it's having a filter or copying other people or or maybe there's a more staunch desire against copying.

You know, a lot of a lot of kids on the spectrum, as you know, they don't want to be anybody but who they are.

And they're strong in that.

And that's actually a really wonderful thing.

So with girls, I think a lot of the reasons that they don't get diagnosed is that their behaviors are not as loud or prominent or dramatic.

But when you spend time with girls that are on the spectrum, you can you can see some really subtle things that sort of point to the fact that that might be an appropriate diagnosis.

For example, one of the things that's been associated with with autism in some people is what we call flat affect.

So sort of not showing your emotions on your face.

And what we know from research actually is that people with autism don't laugh.

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