When an individual has autism and ADHD, the challenges of living in a culture that is not equipped to embrace neurodiversity ...

The study lead told Newsweek that genetic risk scores may help identify people at higher risk of diseases before symptoms ...

Autism and social anxiety frequently occur together, but it has been difficult to tell whether this combination simply ...

This intimate picture of how autism mutations work offers scientists new ideas for how to undo their effects. A drug might ...

Today, we have so many people being diagnosed with autism that wouldn’t have been diagnosed 10, 15 years ago,” the lead ...

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, refers to a neurodevelopmental difference with which about 1% of the world’s population (World Health Organization, 2023) and 2.2% of US adults are diagnosed (Centers ...

Like many autistic people, Madi Young, a consultant in Seattle, has learned to perform the social behaviors and body language that neurotypical people expect. But masking, as it’s called, is hard work ...

At a school in middle-class Riverhead, Long Island, I sat surrounded by a small class of teens — all with autism, with little or no ability to speak. For most of their lives, their thoughts have been ...

Researchers and disability rights advocates warn that the dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil ...

The scale of Minnesota’s welfare fraud has stunned American taxpayers. “The largest Medicaid autism fraud case ever,” as put ...

One day, Riley Smith learned from some former co-workers that an acquaintance had come out as transgender. Smith felt happy for the acquaintance, but she also felt something else. “Afterward, in the ...