Happy New Year! One of my other research areas is the study of risk factors associated with eating disorders, and so I was interested to come across this research papers abstract, suggesting that eating behaviours do not differ by gender in children and adolescents with ASD. sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S1750946710001819 Im curious about this finding. About a quarter of people with an ED are considered to express ASD-related traits to a high degree and most people with an ED are female. Conversely, many people with an ASD diagnosis have unusual relationships with food (possibly sensory-based), and one study suggests that around a quarter of people with ASD would meet criteria for an ED diagnosis - and most people recognised as having an ASD are male. Does this mean that many men with ASD have an overlooked ED (meaning the gender balance reported for EDs is biased towards females) and vice versa that many women with an ED have an overlooked ASD.... Can I ask you all then - what do you think about women with an ASD and eating patterns? Specifically, do you think ASD diagnosed men and women are similar or different in terms of any unusual/atypical (sorry!) food behaviours that youve noticed? What are your particular food preferences and do you think they are ASD-related? Are any based on sensory processing? I intend to create a female ASD screening scale that goes beyond the male model - if there are any important factors like eating behaviour gender differences that are currently considered non-ASD then they should be included in the first version. Please help! Thank you all for continuing to visit this group - and please contribute if you want to share any information you think is significant to women with autism and Aspergers. Lois
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:35:14 +0000
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