Gender dysphoria and related symptoms in autism spectrum disorder: a bilingual review of the literature

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• What: The authors focused on GD and gender-nonconforming symptoms in ASD and reviewed case studies reported in both English and Japanese by performing literature searches in both languages. The primary reason for this is likely to be the difficulty in adapting to peer groups due to social impairment as one of the clinical features of ASD. The aim of this study is to investigate the empirical validity of the "theories" proposed to explain the association between ASD and GD. The authors included papers that had sufficient descriptions of symptoms to determine which theory was better at . . .
  

   

  

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