Posted December 13, 2022 in Articles
Carly Millis Jalowiec is the Education Assistant at Milestones Autism Resources, today she shares her journey to her own autism diagnosis as an adult. Carly provides great insight into the difficulty of diagnosing autism in females and why providers and clinicians have an outdated idea of autism.
Carly talks about how arriving at her adult diagnosis leans a lot into her lifelong masking and camouflaging. Masking is a really important topic in the autism field today because so many individuals want and deserve to be honored as themselves. Carly explains how masking can help individuals fit into the world and get through the day but can really hurt themselves internally.
Original Article: https://abaspeech.org/podcasts/episode-101-autism-in-girls-and-social-skill-instruction-carly-millis-jalowiec/
