Most of your comments seem geared towards general autism and some to clinical psychology as a field. I mostly agree with it, but it is not really about this article. Furthermore, while autism might just be a label and nothing else, we do need to help people who (or who&#x27;s friends and family) claim to have mental problems. Your comment about people having &quot;various eccentricities&quot; (perhaps unknowingly) downplays this. Realistically, it&#x27;s quite hard to tell when people are eccentric or when they are in deep psychological turmoil. At this moment, diagnosing someone with autism, for example, is the most popular method we have -- I wanted to say cutting edge, but that&#x27;s probably wrong.<p>For me it was an interesting article. Since gender is partially a cultural and biological construct I can imagine how gender changes the outer appearance of autism. I wish there would be more research on it compared to what the writer claimed there is. Unfortunately, scientists mostly recruit participants that are easy to find.