Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects millions of people around the world, yet despite growing awareness, it remains widely misunderstood. Misconceptions about what autism is—and what it isn’t—still ...

In elementary school, Ariel sat alone at a desk in the closet. She could see the class through a two-way mirror, but no one could see her. She doesn’t remember if it was a punishment, but she ...

Understanding Autism follows filmmaker Scott Steindorff as he aims to discover more about his own autism. Speaking to autistic people all across the spectrum, he seeks to reframe the perception of ...

All scientific studies tell a story. Sometimes the story is very clear, and sometimes it’s hard to find. A new autism epidemiology paper in JAMA, “Autism Diagnosis Among U.S. Children and Adults, 2011 ...

About two to three percent of all Americans—including adults and children—are autistic. With recent reports that autism rates are rising, potentially due to improved diagnosis, there's a lot of ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1521/jj.41115698.3 Autism spectrum disorder is among the most visible and well-known conditions affecting brain development. Few ...

Autism doesn’t always look like a disability. Feeding challenges, sensory sensitivities, communication difficulties and rigid ...

April is World Autism Month, and organizations like Autism Speaks and the American Autism Association are working to spread awareness and understanding. For Christians, autism may be a strange topic: ...

Autism in girls is overlooked because symptoms manifest differently across genders, and because of persistent gender bias in clinical and research settings. Compared to boys, autistic girls are more ...

Some welcomed more research and possible new treatments. But the administration’s embrace of unproven science and depiction of autism as a “crisis” has sown deep mistrust. By Sonia A. Rao Sonia A. Rao ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Love transcends diagnoses. People of all neurotypes, whether on ...

Autism is a topic Brittany Slawter cares about deeply. All three of her children − ages 11, 12 and 13 − have autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, the clinical name for the condition commonly referred to ...