Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

Hans Asperger was giving a speech that was a matter of life and death. It was 1938 and Asperger was a pediatrician in Nazi Germany, working with an unusual group of children who didn’t fit common ...

My greatest challenge is the combination of my autism, ADHD and my executive functioning skills. I graduated cum laude from my college and yet I struggle to not burn frozen chicken nuggets. Sometimes ...

What's Behind Rising Autism Rates: A Broader Definition of Autism and Better Screening President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered ...

Chloe explains how her experiences of autism shape her daily life, but do not define her. Watch more of Chloe's story on BBC Scotland Investigates: Help Me Save My Child at 20:30 on Monday 16 April ...

COLUMBIA - Most parents fear hearing their child is autistic. But now parents may fear the opposite...that those who are autistic now, will not qualify under a new definition. The American Psychiatric ...

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

April 2 is the 12th annual World Autism Awareness Day. Autism is a complex disorder which exists on a spectrum, and therefore can be difficult to understand and properly define. It can manifest itself ...