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This sibling-controlled East Asian study found that autistic individuals, their unaffected siblings, and typically developing ...

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

New animal research is raising provocative questions about whether a simple mix of everyday nutrients can dramatically dial ...

In The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults, I wrote about the transformative power of unmasking, and I created a roadmap ...

ElliQ is an empathetic care companion designed for older adults aging independently at home. (Image courtesy of Intuition Robotics) A large-scale longitudinal study published in The Gerontologist has ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers investigated the association between maternal autistic traits and the risk of adverse birth outcomes in the general population.

Myths about autism abound. Here, experts explain what’s fact and what’s fiction when it comes to the condition. Plus, what it ...

When it comes to attraction, the eyes often tell the story. But what happens when the gaze itself tells us something deeper—about how people perceive and evaluate faces differently based on their ...

Entrepreneur Natasha Nelson always knew she was different. The 35-year old from Stone Mountain, Georgia, struggled with establishing social norms. She found small talk difficult, and couldn’t ...