&gt; It’s the long list of diagnoses Maya collected before she was 21, from borderline personality disorder to agoraphobia to obsessive-compulsive disorder, that begin to hint at how little we understand autism in women.<p>That doesn&#x27;t follow. It could simply mean that she had really bad psychiatrists who just threw around diagnoses. Maybe it reflects that mental illness in general is poorly understood, because they didn&#x27;t discover that the other diagnoses were false positives. I am afraid that unless a diagnosis is followed by a successful treatment, it&#x27;s not worth much.