Table 5.

Parents/carers’ comments and annotations on the special interests of their ASD female child.

Age	Parents/Carers’ Comments and Annotations	Category
7 y.o.	She is interested only in cat breeds identification	Animals
9 y.o.	She collects makeup products	Fashion and beauty
17 y.o.	She is obssessed about horses and spends long hours researching all about horses on the internet	Animals
8 y.o.	She is an avid reader, and she always takes her book with her when she leaves the house	Literature
15 y.o.	She insists on going to the same play several times	Theatre and dance
6 y.o.	She insists on reading books only about fairies, collects only fairy dolls, and goes out only dressed as a fairy	Fairytales
19 y.o.	All she wants to learn is Italian, she repeats new phrases all the time, and she already speaks two other foreign languages fluently	Languages
13 y.o.	She knows everything about Gustav Klimt’s art	Arts
32 y.o	She is interested only in autism in females, writes a blog about it, attends meetings as a self-advocate, talks only about this topic if you let her	Human behaviour
9 y.o	She only talks about dog’s behaviour, how to train dogs, knows the addresses of every dog training center and pet shop in the area, and insists on going there in any spare moment	Animal behaviour