The first I learned about autism was as a kid told I had Asperger's. For a long time, what autism meant to me was not having friends, feeling misunderstood, and generally being a bit weird. When I ...

A young woman named Zoe Grace took to TikTok to share the 11 signs of her autism that were missed when she was a child.

When I was growing up, my mom worked at a company that supported adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She says that when I was a child, I would ask her about her “friends who don’t ...

My travels with autism started long before my diagnosis at the age of three years and three months. My family noticed autistic features from around 15 months of age. I never looked at people and did ...

“I was failed by a system that rewards compliance,” Tyler Barnett tells PEOPLE. “It wasn’t built for me" ...