Autistic Women

Shayna Kershaw is AutismBC’s Regional Coordinator for the interior. In this article, she shares how her daughter Chloe found her love of playing hockey.   […]

To improve the diagnosis and care of autistic women and girls, it is important to understand the unique challenges they face.

  Pronouns & language I guess if I had to choose, I go by she/her pronouns because it’s easiest and that’s usually what people default […]

A brief history of International Women’s Day International Women’s Day (IWD) began in 1911 as a cry for women’s labour and suffrage rights. Inspired by […]

Janette’s Story I identify as person first and then autism second. So, I prefer to be referred to as someone having autism or a woman […]

Content Warning: Bullying, diagnosis, school, mental health, suicide attempts “The Journey to Myself Through Yoga.” Hello, My name is Noelle Smith and I would like […]

Do you prefer person-first or identity-first language? I identify as autistic. For me, being autistic is having a different brain, so I feel it through […]

Kristen Hovet, Founder and Author of the website The Other Autism, a website focused on the female autism phenotype, recently took some time to share […]

We understand the importance of gender expression and we are committed to inclusion. We will be focusing on Non-binary and Autigender content in our June […]

We are going to talk about Autistic Women and Girls.  When you think of autism do girls and women come to mind? “Girls are less […]

“By being different, by having the specific set of skills and challenges that YOU alone possess, you are the best one to invent that new […]

 SF is a musician, home cook and lover of cats. SF has worked for the Pacific Autism Family Network since March 2016. She works as […]

I didn’t always know I was autistic. I lived in a particularly small town in a decade when autism was not as forefront a topic […]