Unmasked by Morgan O'Donnell

“Julie Turner-Cobb: Women were finding that they didn’t have the emotional vocabulary to explain it, particularly to health-care professionals. Previously, they may have learned how to cope or how to mask things, and suddenly they felt that they weren’t able to cope any longer. And those skills that they’d had before, that they had perhaps honed over several years, just weren’t working for them anymore, because of the changes they were experiencing during menopause. For some women, it meant that that was when they were diagnosed with autism.[emphasis mine]”