{"id":82613,"date":"2025-12-21T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82613"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:18:25","slug":"nine-in-ten-autistic-people-over-40-are-undiagnosed-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/nine-in-ten-autistic-people-over-40-are-undiagnosed-research-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine in ten autistic people over 40 are undiagnosed, research suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LsohG.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=748&amp;y=422&amp;s=506&amp;d=506\" alt=\"Christine Mcguinness has previously opened up about her autism diagnosis (Stuart C. Wilson\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost 90 per cent of autistic people over the age of 40 in the UK are living without a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">diagnosis<\/a>, a study suggests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nine-in-ten-autistic-people-over-40-are-undiagnosed-research-suggests\/ar-AA1LsvjD?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6947aad0cbb6445d87e3e04ff2c6a926&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Almost 90 per cent of autistic people over the age of 40 in the UK are living without a\u00a0diagnosis, a study suggests&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Autism-spectrum.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82614,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82613\/revisions\/82614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}