If you walk into any autistic group, almost everyone in the group understands what it means to go into autistic shutdown or meltdown states. Even if they don’t know the proper words or terminology for ...

Speech ability can also change depending on the environment. For example, being in a loud and bright space like a hospital or ...

The lesson is not to fear a conspiracy, but to keep refining our definitions, sharpening our science, and remembering that ...

At a disability help desk at the airport, a badge around her neck, Jennifer Opal was visibly communicating that she had an invisible disability. When the situation became overwhelming, Opal ...

In 2016, Tulika Prasad was at the grocery store checkout line with her seven-year-old son, who is non-verbal and autistic. A woman understood what... Her son had a meltdown in public. A stranger ...

But, but, we have it on good authority that autism is such a debilitating condition that nobody who has it can be a productive, tax paying member of society. Never mind that the world's richest person ...