What Autistic Girls Are Made Of
MAGAZINE August 5, 2007
No . 15. What Autistic Girls Are Made Of
By EMILY BAZELON
Research and clinical observation are starting to show that autistic girls are different from autistic boys. And these differences may have implications for the quality of their lives.
Caitlyn & Marguerite sat knee to knee in a sunny room at the Hawks Camp in Park City, Utah. On one wall was a white board with these questions: What's your favorite vacation and why? What's your favorite thing about yourself? If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Caitlyn, who is 13, and Marguerite, who is 16 (I've used only their first names to protect their privacy), held yellow sheets of paper on which they had written their answers. It was the third day of the weeklong camp, late for icebreakers. But the Hawks are kids with autistic disorders accompanied by a normal or high I.Q. And so the main goal of the camp, run on a 26-acre ranch by a Utah nonprofit organization called the National Ability Center, is to nudge them toward the sort of back and forth '" 'What's your favorite video game?' '" that comes easily to most kids.
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