U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared autism a national “epidemic,” calling it a “preventable disease” that is growing at an “alarming rate.” He went on ...

I wasn’t looking for a diagnosis in April of 2004 when I began reading a New York Times article on Asperger’s syndrome — then psychiatry’s label for a less-disabling form of autism. But soon after ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data this week showing that 1 in 31 children in the U.S. is autistic. As researchers and physicians, we welcome the growing national ...

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...

On Monday, President Trump held a news conference where he claimed that autism is “among the most alarming public health crises in history” and something that may be “artificially induced.” ...