Gina Rippon in conversation with Robin Ince

When it comes to autism, girls and women have often been forgotten. Autistic girls are often misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, personality disorders, or are missed altogether, and many women only discover they have the condition when they are much older, missing decades of support and understanding.

Renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon looks at why autism has historically been focused on men and how it manifests in them, and delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored and misunderstood for so long.

Author of The Gendered Brain, Rippon is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University, where she has used brain-imaging techniques to investigate patterns of brain activity in developmental disorders such as autism. She talks to comedian and writer Robin Ince.