Article about the ignoring of older Autistic women

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Autism, ageing and women: not invisible, just ignored by Cos Michael an Autistic Woman

Thank you for posting that. The lack of recognition is almost total for this group, little support and no dedicated services whatsoever that I know of here. Autism NZ did have a very capable woman who set up a support group
for adult women (of all age cohorts) and she did a great job, though when she left they didn't fill the vacancy and that was the end of any formalised initiative from them. There is a peer support group called ASK though (stands for Austistic Spectrum Kiwis) which is still going as far as I know and an excellent blog by one of their members called StrangerinGodzone. Possibly even these scraps are more than there for older ASD women is in much larger countries I suspect, though I will be delighted to be proved wrong on that. In Australia I think Donna Williams and others are more active perhaps in respect of this overlooked section of the ASD population.