For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared autism a national “epidemic,” calling it a “preventable disease” that is growing at an “alarming rate.” He went on ...

The first large-scale study on the experiences of autistic transgender people finds that they are more likely to have long-term mental and physical health conditions, including alarmingly high rates ...

It is a common stereotype that autistic people do not have empathy. This stereotype is false and not backed up by the latest ...

Nothing should prevent someone from learning about the universe, and this designation helps every visitor experience ...

SAP not the only company committing to hire more autistic employees. Autism made it hard for Phillip Griffin, 22, to find a job, but now he works at a software company in Illinois. Courtesy Autonomy ...

Two new Arkansas programs aim to make traffic stops safer and more effective for people with autism and mental illness.The ...