From Georgina Skipper, Wyke Regis, Dorset, UK
Several readers suggest coining a new name for autism in girls and women, given its differences to autism in boys and men(Letters, 3 May). May I suggest an old one: Sukhareva’s syndrome? Grunya Sukhareva’s groundbreaking work on autism took place nearly 20 years before Hans Asperger’s oft-cited work, and in the mid 1920s, she published .
