diagnosed

By then, the groups that Tanton had helped found had become larger than Tanton, who was in his mid-70s and diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and they had achieved mainstream power.

“We would have been able to diagnose our son much earlier if we had any clues because he was 12 when he was diagnosed. At that time I didn’t know much about autism at all and it was a very scary and stressful time for us and it was scary for him too. This show will go a very long way in helping to alleviate that fear.”

“Because autism presents itself differently in females, a lot of times they can use masking techniques to elude being diagnosed,” Ohora explains.

But he often sees men who could have been diagnosed earlier - and they can be relatively young, he says.

In mitigation, Tom Walkling representing Le Gresley, said she had been living with the knowledge of how she had behaved, had a long history of depression and anxiety and was "likely to be diagnosed with autism disorder".