Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

The 1930s and 1940s—The Battle to Define Autism After Bleuler coined the term autism, little happened to clarify what the condition consisted of. In the 1930s and 1940s the clinical definition of ...

My greatest challenge is the combination of my autism, ADHD and my executive functioning skills. I graduated cum laude from my college and yet I struggle to not burn frozen chicken nuggets. Sometimes ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump ...

DOT ORG. A NUMBER OF CHILDREN BEING DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM. IT’S GOING UP IN RECENT YEARS. KOAT U-N-M HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ASH IS HERE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHY DOCTORS AND FAMILIES ARE BETTER AT ...

For decades, autism treatment has measured success through changes in children's behavior. A new study by researchers at the Catalight Research Institute, however, has found that families are now ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Dozens of studies have debunked the theory, but ...

Autism affects 1 in 36 children globally, yet many cases in India go undiagnosed. From early signs parents miss to what the ...