A five-year old boy has an obsession with vacuum cleaners while his
five-year old female playmate has an obsession with monkeys. Which
kid gets spotted for Autism Spectrum Disorder testing?
According to some concerned ASD researchers,
the girl might well be just as likely to have Asperger's Syndrome--a
disorder at the mild end of the spectrum--as the boy, but her more
socially typical interests mask it long enough for her to go
undiagnosed into her teens or even adulthood.
Some researchers claim
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