TRADITIONALLY, women and gender-diverse people were less likely to be identified as autistic because they didn’t fit the ...

For a long time, autism was seen as something that only showed up in boys—and only in childhood. But for thousands of women, the story is different. Quietly, painfully different. They spend decades ...

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

Before you read this post, I want to remind you that my perspective is only mine. And that when I describe my experiences as a late-diagnosed autistic female, I am aware that I do not represent the ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

The world tends to judge what it doesn’t understand, but looking a little closer reveals just how much strength, empathy, and ...

In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, identified autism as a separate disorder from schizophrenia in young children. Kanner called his newly identified disorder early ...

The Advancing the System of Care for Autistic Older Adults (ASC) study explores how health and mental health conditions emerge and change for autistic adults as they grow older. The study uses ...

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works.