Dr Judith Brown: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- head of evidence and research at the National Autistic Society
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“Gender should never be a barrier to receiving an autism diagnosis and access to the right support. Historically, it was wrongly assumed that autistic people were mostly men and boys, but we now know that women and girls are more likely to 'mask' what [are] traditionally thought of as signs of autism, making it harder to identify the challenges they face.”
Where Dr Judith Brown has been quoted
- Autistic girls much less likely to be diagnosed, study saystheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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