Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You might ...

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Autism diagnoses have increased sharply in recent decades, leading to speculation that the condition is new or triggered by modern environmental factors. But a comprehensive review of research on ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 36 children. That is nearly the equivalent of one child per classroom. This number has risen in recent years with ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. 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 ...

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that ...

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