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Letter: How about an old name for autism in women and girls?

Published 21 May 2025

From Georgina Skipper, Wyke Regis, Dorset, UK

Several readers suggest coining a new name for autism in girls and women, given its differences to autism in boys and men(Letters, 3 May). May I suggest an old one: Sukhareva’s syndrome? Grunya Sukhareva’s groundbreaking work on autism took place nearly 20 years before Hans Asperger’s oft-cited work, and in the mid 1920s, she published .

Issue no. 3544 published 24 May 2025

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