In May 2025 Weißbuch ‘,’Recipe for changes‘, The World Economic Forum is clear: the health of women remains talking, underrepresented and underfunded. In order to tackle these gaps, the paper requires “deeper sex-specific knowledge”-the biological differences between women and men to understand how diseases manifest in women and how these differences can affect the diagnosis and treatment.
Women are not a monolithic group. Despite the common biology, differences in the neurotypes – as the brain of a person processes and reacts – can lead to different health experiences. Women who are neurodicizing, including those with autism, ADHD or Tourette syndrome, can experience symptoms in a way that do not match the clinical expectations that are mainly based on the examination of neurotypical patients. Without recognizing the needs and experiences of neurodiving women, the closure of the research gap will be unreachable.
Invisible life and marginalized battles: neurodiverse and menopause
Consider menopause. Although the severity of the menopausal symptoms varies significantly, recent studies show that women with neurodiving diseases are particularly susceptible. A study in Great Britain found a study in Great Britain Physical and psychological effects be more intense for you. They also reported particularly pronounced sleep disorders, memory violations and concentration problems.
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The overlap of the menopausal symptoms and the cognitive challenges that more neurodent women are already facing creates a compound effect. For example, a study by Debora Gottello and Belinda Steffan 2024 found that there was a bad concentration Both a symptom of menopause and a persistent challenge for neurodiver women which were either menopause or after menopause. Gottardello and Steffan found that increased distractability are increased in such women due to several sources of mental fatigue.
Women are not a monolithic group. Despite the common biology, differences in the neurotypes – as the brain of a person processes and reacts – can lead to different health experiences. Women who are neurodicizing, including those with autism, ADHD or Tourette syndrome, can experience symptoms in a way that do not match the clinical expectations that are mainly based on the examination of neurotypical patients.
One participant with ADHD said that she described her lived experiences with neurodiversing and menopausal interchangeable hunting. “[It] Now worried me … I forget more and cannot control as before. “In an earlier study in which menopause was specially examined in autistic women, one participant reported:“ When I talk about it [menopause]I say, ‘My autism broke“Before that, my autism worked pretty well for me and provided me with good professional skills.”
These examples underline a convincing need, the transitions of life, which is often regarded as the “normal part of a woman’s life”, which have a different effect on the neurodiving women than their neurotypical counterparts on the neurodiving women.
Neurodive -gang -weak spots: from eating disorders to heart disease
Neurodivergenic also overlaps Eating disorders (Ed) that affect women disproportionately. Recent investigations have found an “underlying susceptibility to security in the neurodiving population that she predisposed for Ed”. There is also a higher risk of poorer treatment results for those who fight EDs who are also neurod -diverse, as mentioned in an article from 2024. The researching clinical psychologists called for the examination of the ‘The unique security gaps within the neurodivers [group] to improve their treatment results.
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Even diseases such as heart diseases – which are already poorly understood in women – Greater challenges for neurodiving women. The drugs that have prescribed neurodicist women can create additional risks themselves. For example, many autistic women are prescribed antipsychotics to lead mental illnesses that occur at the same time. However, there are potential “cardiovascular effects downstream of increased concentrations of antipsychotics”, as recent studies protect.
A 2023 study examined women with heart-related symptoms that most of them. The researchers found that women with ADHD were two years younger on average than those without ADHD, which indicates an earlier use of heart problems and possibly greater severity.
For most women in India and all over the world, obstacles to access in healthcare are a persistent reality. In India the non -availability of medication, Logistical challenges when accessing health serviceS and a lack of trained health service providers create considerable obstacles. Without recognizing the needs and experiences of neurodiving women, the closure of the research gap will be unreachable.
This observation is particularly significant if, in addition to the fact, it is considered that menopause at a younger age is an increasingly recognized risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. It is important that most of the 2023 study participants did not even diagnose ADHD before screening, which emphasizes how undiscovered neurod negotiation can mask critical risk factors.
Decorate obstacles to access in the healthcare system: redefine reefinition of research on inclusion
For most women in India and all over the world, obstacles to access in healthcare are a persistent reality. In India the non -availability of medication, Logistical challenges when accessing health serviceS and a lack of trained health service providers create considerable obstacles. In addition, there is a blatant lack of India -specific research in which it is examined how more neurodive women control different health states.
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Health research focuses exclusively on gender differences and further ignores those whose needs are often not recognized or not filled when ignoring neurotype differences. In order to improve research quality and health results, the introduction of an integrative research design is essential.
Researchers have to use methods that are responsible for neurological diversity and involve neurodiverse participants with lived experiences. Medical specialists need better training to understand the neurodian violation and its manifestations, including communication styles that can differ from those of neurotypical patients, and enables them to better satisfy the needs of neurodiving patients. After all, the health states they experience are inextricably linked to their neurod negotiation.
An intersectional lens to investigate the health of women should go beyond gender and gender differences. Neurotype differences, which are often not visible, play a crucial role. If the health research of women does not sensibly integrated the neurod negotiation, diagnostic instruments and treatments will continue to reflect the experiences of some women lived. Not all.
Shayonee Dasgupta is a freelance writer and independent researcher who reports on the interface of health, well -being, gender and neurodivergenz. In her past, she used to be a lawyer.
