Why Autistic Pride Day MattersHave you ever met someone who notices details others miss, remembers facts with incredible accuracy, or sees the world from a completely unique perspective?Every year on ...

Autistic people often experience difficulties with social communication. It's so common, in fact, that it's one of the central criteria for an autism diagnosis. For as long as we have been diagnosing ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Artlink is home to many beautiful artworks, but none quite as shiny or sparkly as Autistic Joy. Since the opening reception on August 1, the vinyl pieces assembled on acrylic ...

From vaccine fears to miracle cures, here’s what decades of scientific research actually reveal about the condition ...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition with varied trajectories through the lifespan, leading to individualized patterns of ...

The idea that autistic people lack empathy is simply short-sighted and non-autistic people may find it just as hard to put themselves in someone else's shoes, a study suggests. A paper in the journal, ...

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 ...

Autistic people are more likely to experience depression, potentially due to discrimination, social stigma, or inherent characteristics of autism spectrum disorder that increase the risk. Symptoms of ...

A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests that people with higher autistic traits may use the act of naming their emotions as a way to cope with their intense dislike of unpredictability ...