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

Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You might ...

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) ...

The diversity of autistic persons helps to show the difficulty of constructing a single character that is supposed to represent a group. The Autism Society refers to autism as “a ‘spectrum condition’ ...

person crouched holding smiley face paper over their own face Source: PDPics / Pixabay Public reaction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements about autism has been overwhelmingly critical, with ...