In 2018, statistics showed 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – with boys being 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls.

If you aren’t familiar with autism, it might be helpful to know that it is a wide spectrum and people can be on either side or in the middle.

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Sadly, autistic kids and adults were once and still are today never fully diagnosed, being labelled as “bad/naughty kids”. Many ‘autistic behaviours’ were labelled as “bad”; people simply had no idea that autism was a possibility years ago.

Fortunately, with the internet, we now have the opportunity to do our own research; with over 500,000 teens entering adulthood without being properly diagnosed, it’s more important than ever for us all to have a better understanding of ASD.