Originally Posted by Priiak
On the other hand, many children of color and girls are heavily underdiagnosed with ASD. All too often, children of color are instead diagnosed with conduct disorder, intellectual disability, schizophrenia, personality disorders, etc, before finally receiving ASD.
I also see far too much of this. In particular, I seem to have had a chain recently of highly-verbal girls (some 2e) misidentified with conduct or personality disorders, usually by therapists.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...