Lots of people tell 20-year-old Paige Layle that she “doesn’t look autistic,” from commenters on her TikTok videos to an interviewer at a local TV station. They usually mean it as a compliment — but ...

Each year, during autism acceptance month, many individuals and organizations engage in activities featuring autism. In the last few years, we have come a long way as a society in trying to understand ...

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

March 13, 2007 — -- A new effort is being launched to better educate parents and pediatricians about the earliest signs of autism. There are no known causes or cures for this disorder, but the ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Here’s another powerful story for our ongoing series. This reader asked ...

Autistic people don’t get listened to — least of all when they’re talking about their own autism. “Loads of people saying to me that they thought I could be [autistic]. And then the second you get ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Accessing care for autistic adults or parents of autistic children can be difficult. With hundreds of parents losing Medicaid and low reimbursement rates for providers, ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism’s cause — a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades — ...

Academics at the University of Leeds School of Dentistry Children, who designed the website, said because children with ...