• BaronVonBort@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not to mention that neurodivergence in girls and women is severely underdiagnosed due to differences In manifestation combined with hegemonic standardizations and diagnostic norms.

    Female-bodied people show different symptoms and may be more commonly dismissed as “quirky behavior”.

    So your assumptions that one is tested and the other wasn’t may, in fact, be just as “gross and harmful” as this user accuses someone else to be.