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 ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

In early 2022, my daughter wrote a poem that likened the post-pandemic world to escaping a "canyon we've been trapped in for so long. All our tools lie broken behind us, yet we lift our voices to song ...

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 ...