Diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 43, Karl Frederick looks back at traits he and others long labeled as being a loner, ...

Many autistic women spend years feeling different without understanding why, especially when they have learned to hide their ...

Many autistic adults spend years hiding their natural behaviors to meet social expectations, often without realizing how much ...

When considering extracurricular activities for a child with autism, what I value most is whether it is a place where the ...

"Homer didn't want any of this. Homer didn't want a son. Homer didn't want to be a dad," his father, Coleman "Coley" Laffoon, ...

Many adults only recognize autistic traits later in life, after camouflaging has hidden the signs for years. Here is why that ...

Like most four-and-a-half-year-olds, Lev Bielski loves playing with his big sister, spelling his favorite pastime “pool” on ...

A six-month UK longitudinal study finds that suicidality predicts later increases in anxiety and depression among autistic and non-autistic undergraduates, while neither autism diagnosis nor gender ...

At the 18-month well-child visit, pediatricians are supposed to do something remarkably difficult: detect, in a few minutes of observation, whether a toddler’s social and communicative development i ...

A new playground designed for children on the autism spectrum is now open at Connections Education Center in West Palm Beach.

Meanwhile, percentage with "very unfavorable" views of Health Secretary Kennedy is rising ...