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Autism: 'All of the diagnostic tools have been modelled on boys and men'

Sarah Wild is the headteacher at Limpsfield Grange school in Surrey, the UK鈥檚 only state school for autistic girls.

5 Live visited the school as part of its coverage of Neurodiversity Celebration Week.

Mrs Wild says autistic girls are being failed because of a huge gender bias;

鈥淔or the first 70 years of people understanding that autism existed, we thought that women weren't autistic at all鈥�.

鈥淎utism is a massive spectrum and we have been looking at a really tiny part of it for a really long time.鈥�

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