TPP 037: All About Autistic Girls, with Julie George
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why are autistic girls often missed by traditional diagnostic criteria?
So our girls get overlooked because the criteria, the diagnostic criteria for autism is based off of males. So the behavior characteristics that we put under autism and Asperger's are all derived from men and boys. We need to start looking and asking some different questions diagnostically to capture these girls. Otherwise we're not going to because they're not going to red flag because we don't display the same behaviors as boys do on the spectrum.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. Today I'm happy to be welcoming behavior and educational consultant Julie George back to the show. Julie was on episode 5 of the Tilt Parenting Podcast, where we talked all about executive functioning. Today, we're going to be talking about something very different, but something I know is an area of interest for a lot of the Tilt community, and that is girls on the spectrum. Most of Julie's clients these days are teen or tween girls with Asperger's, which, as you'll hear later, she breaks down into two different types. She calls her quiet and bright girls and her autism within attitude girls.
Because people are starting to become more Tuned into the fact that autism presents so differently in girls than it does in boys, this is a timely conversation and one I highly recommend parents of any differently wired girls check out. And before we get to the show For the month of December, I've decided to take a quick minute at the beginning of each episode to bring attention to an organization doing great work in the world of support of differently wired kids. This week, the organization I'm sharing is understood.org. Understood provides a ton of free services and content for parents. On their website, their mission reads like this: We want to empower parents to understand their children's issues and
Relate to their experiences. With this knowledge, parents can make effective choices that propel their children from simply coping to truly thriving. I am a big fan of Understood because they have so much valuable information on their site that is easily accessible and all free, including a parent toolkit, online parent coaching, live webinars, and Twitter chats where we can interact with experts, useful articles, and an online parent forum. Understood's operated by the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and they're always grateful for tax-deductible donations. To learn more, visit their website at understood.org. And I'll also include links in the show notes page for this episode, which are at tilparenting.com/slash session thirty-seven.
And now let's get on with the show. Welcome back to the show, Julie. Thank you, Debbie. I'm super excited to be back. Well, you were one of my very first guests on the podcast when we did an episode together on the issue of executive functioning and If listeners have not checked that one out already, I highly recommend it. Executive functioning is a challenge for nearly all differently wired kids. And it's actually one of our most listened to episodes. You can find it at tiltparenting.comslash session five. But at the beginning of that conversation, we spent a lot of time talking about one of your passions at the moment and where you're spending a lot of your focus. Focus and energy and that's girls on the autistic spectrum.
And we got a lot of feedback from listeners after that episode who wanted to hear more. And also whenever I post articles about differently wired girls on the Facebook page, the response has always been huge. And I know that parents and caregivers with unique girls in their lives are looking for more information and insight. So here you are and we've got lots of questions for you. Yay. So well, let's start with you. Would you mind just before we get into the meat of this, tell us a little bit about how you got into working with girls and maybe as part of that answer, tell us about when you first noticed there was a difference in the way that autism shows up in girls.
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