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started. Hi, everyone. I was thrilled to be a guest on the neurodiversity podcast hosted by the fabulous Emily Kircher Morris.

Today's episode is Emily interviewing me and we chat all about autistic girls and what you need to know.

Take it away, Emily.

Thank you. need to know. Take it away, Emily. Today I'm welcoming Holly Blanc-Mosius to the podcast.

Holly is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and host of the Autism ADHD podcast.

Holly, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me today.

So we want to take a deep dive today in understanding autism and girls, everything from diagnostic procedures and how it looks different to what type of sports they need.

And I know that there's been so much

that's just really changed in how we understand autism generally in the last decade or two.

I think a big area that that awareness has grown has specifically been in what autism looks like

in girls and women. And so, you know, starting out this conversation, I think it's important to recognize that

there's, it's always hard to have these conversations without offering a lot of caveats, but we're

making generalizations. And so we're going to keep those things in mind as we talk, but it can

still help us to understand things with some broad strokes. So just to start us off, can you

share a little bit about the differences that we

frequently see in autistic girls compared to the stereotype of an autistic boy?

And I'm glad that you said stereotype because that's exactly what it is. We have this idea in

our head about what an autistic person looks like.

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