Ever heard the one about the man who wouldn’t ask for directions, or the woman who couldn’t read a map?
Society is full of jokes about the ways in which men and women are different. Many of them are nonsense, but most of them are based on an acceptance that men and women’s brains work in different ways. We know this because biologists and researchers tell us this.
Scientists have created tests to show that women score better at languages and men score better at spatial reasoning, that women can multi-task and men prefer single-subject learning.
These results are of course open to interpretation and conjecture. The conversation about the differences between men and women is an on-going and very busy one. But one thing that everyone in the room accepts is that the sexes think differently. Why then, do we assume that men and women with autism will think, and thus behave, in exactly the same ways?
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