Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

I came out as autistic during the pandemic. Being isolated for so long finally revealed that I had been “masking,” or performing social behaviors that are considered neurotypical, my entire life. And ...

Is the rise in late diagnoses of autism in "high masking" individuals, especially in women, due to social media influences or new information?

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions. I’ve been ...

On Monday, President Trump held a news conference where he claimed that autism is “among the most alarming public health crises in history” and something that may be “artificially induced.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a major announcement on autism Sept. 22, ...

I am an autistic woman and a mother. If you google autism and mothers, you will find thousands of articles written about and for women who are trying to parent autistic children. You will find a ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently claimed that we will learn the cause of autism within a few months. Kennedy told reporters, “we’ve launched a massive testing and ...

Studies reveal a complex interplay of traits, genes, and brain structure behind the dual diagnosis—raising new questions about how we define and treat both conditions.