I’m a nonspeaking autistic teen, and I was recently interviewed for the KFF Health News article “ The latest autism debate: ...

Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that the condition can vary ...

Elizabeth Bonker is a silent woman with a loud mission. She wants government agencies to cover the costs of training people ...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

In 2020, I received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder ("ASD" or "autism"). As an autistic adult whose diagnosis of autism was missed when I was a child, I am part of what autism researchers call ...

I got my autism diagnosis at 38. It gave my difference a name, but not the support or the answers, I expected to follow.

To a son, his father is larger than life — the man with all the answers, the hero. Mine certainly is. But while writing a book about my father, I learned the truth: My hero was scared. Starting when I ...

At a school in middle-class Riverhead, Long Island, I sat surrounded by a small class of teens — all with autism, with little or no ability to speak. For most of their lives, their thoughts have been ...

Like many autistic people, Madi Young, a consultant in Seattle, has learned to perform the social behaviors and body language that neurotypical people expect. But masking, as it’s called, is hard work ...

Individuals with autism may try to appear more “neurotypical” to protect themselves, but this often comes at a great cost to their mental health. “Autistic masking” or camouflaging refers to the ...

One day, Riley Smith learned from some former co-workers that an acquaintance had come out as transgender. Smith felt happy for the acquaintance, but she also felt something else. “Afterward, in the ...