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

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

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

Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

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

Research shows that autistic professionals can be up to 140% more productive than their neurotypical peers when properly matched to roles that align with their strengths. These individuals often bring ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a ...

An autistic meltdown is an intense reaction to sensory or emotional overload in autistic people. When an autistic person becomes overstimulated or unable to cope with their environment, they may ...