In our research, we identified commonalities across autistic adults’ experiences of burnout. The person may have difficulty ...

Recently, Reddit user u/only_mostly_sane asked, "People with autism, what did you think was 'normal' until a neurotypical person told you otherwise?" Here are some of their responses: This post is for ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

People with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) often show a reduced sensitivity to contextual information in perceptual tasks, but new research suggests that this reduced sensitivity may actually lead ...

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...

Mattel has launched its first Barbie with autism, featuring sensory-friendly details like a fidget spinner, noise-cancelling ...

Parents and NGOs weigh in on whether the doll empowers autistic girls or if it reduces their experiences to a single narrative.