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

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

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a complex developmental condition that affects communication, social ...

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

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

The UN officially created World Autism Awareness Day in 2007. Learn more about this year's theme, and the symbols and colors ...

The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

It is a common stereotype that autistic people do not have empathy. This stereotype is false and not backed up by the latest ...

An autistic meltdown is an intense reaction to sensory or emotional overload in autistic people. When an autistic person becomes overstimulated or unable to cope with their environment, they may ...

As autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders and because of the elusive pathophysiology ...

Can a generic drug designed to make chemotherapy work better benefit people with autism? President Trump is touting an “amazing” drug — leucovorin — as “an answer to autism,” a broad range of ...