The study, presented at a meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Liverpool, showed that high-functioning girls with ASD are more likely to have obsessional interests centred around people and relationships. These interests are more likely to be acceptable to parents and therefore tend not to be reported to doctors.
Almost 600 children took part in the study – 493 boys and 100 girls. The majority (457) had been seen at the Social and Communication Disorders Clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Additional cases came from the Child Psychiatry Clinic at Sunderland Royal Hospital and the Child Psychiatry Clinic, Tampere University Hospital, Finland.
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