Im not sure why the QT narrative is so dominant but:

“Camouflaging** has been proposed as an explanation for the missed/late diagnosis of females w ASC, as part of the female behavioural presentation (Kirkovski et al. 2013; Lai et al. 2015).”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509825/ https://twitter.com/s_amememe___/status/1288891791094222848

“Amongst clinical samples, male to female gender ratios for ASC diagnosis are generally around 4:1 (Fombonne 2009), but when active case ascertainment is used within the general population, the ratio lowers to around 3:1 (Sun et al. 2014).”

**on camouflaging: “these strategies may include hiding behaviours associated with their ASC, using explicit techniques to appear socially competent, and finding ways to prevent others from seeing their social difficulties.”