Girls and Autism: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Most people tend to think of autism as a male disorder, and the character in the film Rain Man often comes to mind. But emerging research shows that girls often have different symptoms which cause them to slip through the net.
This program was originally broadcast in June 2015,
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | It's All In The Mind on RN. I'm Lynne Malcolm. |
| 0:09.0 | We've been bringing you a selection of favourite All In The Mind programs from my years as host. |
| 0:15.3 | In this one from 2015, we discuss girls and women on the autism spectrum. |
| 0:22.1 | Does their lived experience of autism slip through the net? |
| 0:26.5 | My name is Temple Brandon. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm not like other people. |
| 0:32.0 | You know, you never get cured of autism. |
| 0:34.3 | But what you do is you learn more and more things. |
| 0:41.3 | When I was a little kiddo, it was very autistic, non-verbal, rocking. You know, that's the kind of kid they just put away in the institution. |
| 0:44.3 | But I had a speech teacher that worked really hard with me, |
| 0:46.3 | and I can't emphasize enough the importance of the young children getting early intervention. |
| 0:50.3 | You got a two-year-old or three-year-old, no speech. |
| 0:53.3 | Don't wait. |
| 0:55.0 | One of the best-known women with autism is Temple Grandin, and she is an extraordinarily |
| 1:02.7 | brilliant woman who has, I think, several degrees and PhDs and designs livestock facilities. |
| 1:10.9 | And she talks about her ability to visualize the whole of a livestock facility in her head before |
| 1:17.9 | she even begins to draw the blueprints. |
| 1:20.0 | And also she talks about her empathy for animals, her ability to see the world as if she |
| 1:26.4 | was one of the cattle that's going to have to go through |
| 1:28.6 | this livestock facility and to notice the little shiny things that might scare them or disturb |
| 1:34.0 | them and so on. How is she representative of women with autism? Well, she's highly, highly |
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