More Than Just 'Quirky'

The concept that girls and boys with Aspergers would have different symptoms should be of no surprise - after all "normal" boys and girls have different complexities in their social interactions, showing up as early as 3 years old. It seems logical that people with pervasive developmental disorders (which includes AS) would show the same pattern. My daughter, who has PDD-NOS, prefers being friends with boys because social situations are much simpler.
But the obsession thing, I would suspect that is part of girls wanting to socially fit in (so they focus on something that gives positive feedback), part individuality. My daughter's quirk is an off-the-wall, totally out there one.
All in all, boys and girls on the spectrum aren't that different, if doctors would actually listen to parents' concerns and initiate developmental testing, rather than being dismissive (I'm still mad at the doctor that decided my daughter was working on her motor skills first when I expressed concerns over her lack of language development at 8 months - 10 valuable months of time was wasted). Chances are, since it's admitted that girls are probably underdiagnosed, when they do start diagnosing girls properly, the gap will change from 10 boys to 1 girl down to 4 boys to 1 girl, the same ratio as autism and PDD-NOS.

I am a 41-year-old female and was just diagnosed this summer with Asperger's. What a relief it was to realize what has driven me crazy all these years actually has a name! Thanks for an awesome article.

Attention Barabbas!... Aspbergers are your harshest critics.

America leads the world in false diagnostic categories and pill-popping. America trails the industrialized world in life expectancy.

http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/
This is the website for OASIS, it has helped us a lot. We have a daughter that we believe has aspergers and we are starting the testing process now.

Where do I find out more information about Asperger's. The symptoms are very close to my daughter's behaviour.