9 AUTISM In Girls Symptoms (YOU Need To Notice)

Here are 9 must see autism in girls symptoms to help you identify autism in girls.

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Autism in girls symptoms can differ from how it’s presented in males, a lot of the current information available for diagnostic and identification of autism in people is based around melds.

Here are nine of the most common ways that you can identify autism in girls symptoms by just looking at these signs and characteristics.

1 Selective Mutism
Selective mutism is where the person who will opt out of talking at certain social situations because they are overloading for them.

2 Masking
This is where a person on the autism spectrum who is female will try to act neuro typical around other people in social situations and hide their autistic characteristics.

3 End Of Day Meltdowns
When an autistic female is masking all day at the end of the day once they come home they may feel so overwhelmed that everything that they have been hiding all day will come out in a meltdown.

4 Obsessive Collection
Autism in girls will often that she would self as being a collective type of obsession of a genre they are really into it and they will collect everything.

5 Issues With Friendships
Girls on the autism spectrum may find it difficult to maintain friendships because they are finding it hard to relate to people who are neuro typical.

6 Exhaustion & Fatigue
When the girl with autism is masking all day this can be very exhausting and can cause exhaustion and fatigue and extreme tiredness at the end of the day or on the weekend if they have been masking all week.

7 Difficulty With Eye Contact
People with autism will definitely have issues with I contact and maintaining eye contact during conversations.

8 Extreme Shyness (quite)
Autistic females are known to be quiet and quite shy and reserved when they are in social situations or with the family members

9 Fussy Eating
Picky eating or fussy eating is definitely a common characteristic with females on the autism spectrum and people on the autism spectrum in general.

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[alexa]

I don’t have an end of day meltdown. I have an end of day shutdown.

[moreloveforthepeople]

Selective mutism absolutely doesn’t mean not having anything to say— often we have the words we want to say running a loop in our brains— it means we are unable to speak.

[rinpaisys]

I was like “I don’t have any collec—....oh wait.” Pan over to literally any direction and see cat themed items or items for my cat. Just...everywhere.

[Jwlznn]

Apparently, I should win the lifetime achievement award in masking. I'm 47 and just realized 4 years ago that I'm autistic. I had no idea. I masked so well for over 40 years, I didn't even know it myself. When I did discover it, it was so shocking. I told my family and they didn't believe me because they never saw the signs. My son was diagnosed with autism 4 years ago so I was researching it to better help and understand him. That's how I discovered it in myself. I'm a 100% introvert. I've asked people what I was like growing up and the only thing anyone ever says it that I was quiet.

[ew]

I have question: does anyone here ever have a moment where they don't have an intense interest and feel really lost with themselves because of it?

[lavendermeadow]

I was just wondering, does anybody else here keep their special interest a secret?? I get very obsessive but I kind of obsess over things in private, if that makes any sense. 😅

[possumsinatrenchcoat]

at age 3 my doctor thought i had autism due to my extreme shyness and muteness around loud people or in new situations, but the child psychiatrist my parents took me to definitively said that i wasn't autistic because my mutism was selective, and that autistic kids can't just turn their behaviors on and off.
every point in your video resonated with me, especially the first one. this is the first time i've heard the term "selective mutism." after wondering for 19 years why i felt so different from other kids but "knowing" it wasn't autism, i think you may have opened my eyes to the answer. idk if you'll ever see this but thank you so much <3

[Moonrisedaze]

I’m a female in my 50’s, and my entire life, I’ve had unusual social anxiety issues due to what I finally see, in retrospect, could be attributed to autism.
I can only describe it as feeling like I’m on the outside looking in while in groups.
It feels like watching a party through a window from the outside.
I left every sleepover in tears, because maintaining the act that long was impossible. Plus, I just needed to be in my own bed to decompress & sleep.
I thought I was just mental, because no one else seemed to be struggling like me.

Fun occasions that everyone else got (and still get) excited over, terrified me. I don’t even want to begin explaining how much social lubricants (alcohol) played in lifting some that weight, but ended up opening it’s own can of worms carrying twice the weight!

With regard to masking; it’s literally so ingrained that at this point, it’s almost involuntary. For a long time, I thought it was some sort of multiple personalities situation. I could see and feel myself becoming a different person (depending on who I was speaking to) in various social situations & groups.
I quietly KNEW that I was acting different, but nobody else seemed to notice, so I went along, living my life & adjusting accordingly on a daily basis.

Ex-hausting!

We have a long family history of autism, but it just seemed to only occur with the males.
It never occurred to me until all of this information became available about females with autism, that so SOOO much of my behaviors & thought processes from my earliest memories could be explained! It’s been liberating!

I just wanted to thank you and all of the others out there providing this content. I now understand that it wasn’t just me.
It feels like I’ve been gifted a reprieve.
I can finally exhale. ❤

[shewho]

I knew my daughter was autistic by the time she was four. When she was five, her teachers would tell me how quiet and polite she was at school, and she’d come home and just have the biggest ever meltdowns after school. I felt so bad for her, because I knew she felt just like I do after a whole day of being around people.

[martinwilke]

in a nutshell:
1. selective mutism
2. masking
3. end of day meltdown
4. obsessive collecting
5. issues with friends
6. exhaustion and fatigue
7. difficulty with eye contact
8. extreme shyness
9. fussy eating

[jackiejones]

I am crying right now because I finally feel like there’s a reason I am having all these problems. It’s not just extreme social anxiety, it’s always been selective mutism, masking, emotionally exhausted, not understanding why I couldn’t just “be myself”. My dad is emotionally abusive so I got really good at reading people because I had to, and I’m only really great at reading my family members. My dad is a narcissist so naturally sometimes I tend to think I know more than I do. I can’t afford to ask for a potential diagnosis, but this is a start.

[Panda-panda]

Selective mutism was a huge thing when I was younger. Especially, if I was around boisterous and outgoing people. I just lost any glimmer of vocabulary. It was frustrating as people assumed that I was just nieve.

[crystalkirlia]

Tbh, I started crying after no. 3. I've never been diagnosed but every time I see something about autism I'm like "yep, yep, yep, that's me... but I don't want to say it and piss people off because I'm not diagnosed" and then I heard about the end of day meltdown and just started crying because people used to bully me for never going out and just going straight home. It was like I was a robot that just deactivated every night...

[eloise]

My teachers couldn’t understand why I didn’t do my homework. It was because I’m so tired from masking all day that when I get home I have no energy, I can’t even talk.

[necronyx]

I knew I was autistic but had not heard of the end of day meltdown; I just thought that I was weaker than others. Thank you for making me feel better about this exhausting, emotional break.

[bezelleblanc]

I have autism, bipolar, and generalized anxiety disorder. I'm also female and I can admit these are pretty spot on.

[ZukiTanuki]

I am a selective mute. I get panicky about "my turn to talk" and freeze, listening to the white noise that the conversation becomes. I feel like its kind of linked to the masking thing, cause you overload while trying to keep the mask up. Most social situations will burn me out, often for days after.
I have "collector-itis" - I am obsessed with collecting things which have collections... and so I avoid collectables out of fear of never having a full collection.
I cannot maintain friendships at all. If someone stops talking to me I will not chase it up and try to make reparations, I just accept it cause its too stressful.
I'm permanently tired.
Eye contact feels about the same as having exposed genitals… it feels awkward.

[boogalingous]

I hyperfocus on one thing at a time and obsess over it.
I collect DBZ and inuyasha everything.
I was also forced to make eye contact when I was a kid, so now I focus so much at the eyes that I don't actually hear what the person is saying to me.

[Sally_Joe]

My son is on the spectrum. While going through the process of getting him diagnosed, I recognized how much I fell in line with the symptoms. I took an AQ test as an adult and scored 43. I declined a formal diagnosis for ODD, ADHD and autism for myself. I've kept it mostly private.

I have an obsession with books. I've so far collected approximately one thousands books. Counting was a problem for me and I've worked hard to stop counting everything.

[Crysticks]

This is 100% me....every single point. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 32, I am 47 now and I finally came out to my friends and my family about it. Ive always kept it private because of the judgment and bullying I experienced. I so wish I had help when I was a kid. But back in the 70s and 80s, girls just didn't have autism unless they were 100% non-verbal. Thank you so much for bring all these points up. 🙏 ❤ 🙌