This is the Guardian.

Today, why so many autistic women have to fight for recognition?

For Carly Jones, life has always come with some added complications.

Social imagination, that's the most difficult for me.

If I say something, somebody says something else, what happens next?

Kind of for seeing social consequences, I can't get across

importantly enough just how difficult that is to live like that.

She's struggled with school, friends, and the outside world.

Incredibly sensitive to light. Lights can be incredibly difficult for me.

They can make me go nonverbal.

And sometimes she could be in harmful physical pain without even realizing.

When I was 14, I had to pen to sitis and I didn't know until

basically needed to be taken out as an emergency surgery.

Then, at 32, she was diagnosed as autistic and everything began falling into place.

But because she was a woman, the world still didn't quite believe her.

If I had a pound, for every time somebody said to me,

oh, but you don't look autistic, I'd be a millionaire by now.

Last week, TV presenter Melanie Cites and the model Christine McInnis

both revealed that they were autistic.

And that, just like Carly, they weren't diagnosed until well into adulthood.

I just think it's going to help so many other women,

either if they are already autistic and don't talk about it, come out

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