For many women with autism, a diagnosis won't come until much later in life, by which point they may well have experienced a number of significant challenges without any adequate support.
Until fairly recently, autism was regarded as a condition that rarely affected women, however, this is far from the truth.
Often, autistic women will go under the radar completely, according to the National Autistic Society, partly because they will be more likely to 'mask' their autistic traits.
