Research, across time, consistently documents unique social communication patterns in autistic individuals (Wang et al., 2022). One of the more prevalent theories for conceptualizing the cognitive ...

There are three levels of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which are described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). Each autistic person is diagnosed as ...

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions. I’ve been ...

Autistic people are so rarely depicted in media and entertainment, it's no wonder most people don't really understand much ...

When Jennifer Mcilwee Myers was 6 years old, she vowed she would learn the meaning of every word in the English language. That way, she reasoned, she could figure out all of human knowledge without ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

Russell Rollens's life was off to a strong start nine years ago. Gestation and delivery went smoothly, and he hit all the early-childhood milestones right on schedule. Snapshots from his 1st birthday ...