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On-Line Autism Tests...?

Is there any girl test yet? The old ones can't diagnose girls as they were made when only males were discovered and women continued to go under the radar due to the tests being composed from new and new male subjects, unable to get any precise broad marks for ladies. Girls are social and mask so well often, not really having awareness of who they are when in public.
 
Is there any girl test yet? The old ones can't diagnose girls as they were made when only males were discovered and women continued to go under the radar due to the tests being composed from new and new male subjects, unable to get any precise broad marks for ladies.
IIUC, most on-line tests are genderless. Girls/ladies only pass in person due to their serious masking skills. (They don't mask as much when self-reporting.)
 
Fro example, I do some stiming when I'm alone, but mask it from other people.
If you happen to be 2e, giftedness masks the autism & autism masks the giftedness.
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