Autistic boys and men often rely on camouflaging behaviours, just like autistic women and girls do. Camouflaging is linked to public self-consciousness.

Voices Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’ sometimes. As an autistic man, I’m disgusted. Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions ...

Voices The narrative around autism is being twisted to excuse cruelty and white male violence. We cannot let that happen. Whether it’s the media justifying prejudice, parents dismissing our ...

A new study suggests that autism diagnosis could be improved with a greater focus on the differences in emotional needs between women and men.

For many decades it was thought that men were very much more likely to be autistic than women. Some studies placed the ratio ...

Another worrying fact from the data was that 32 out of 100 autistic women had been hospitalized because of mental health struggles. On the other hand, among autistic men, it was 19 out of 100.

Several studies also suggest that autistic men are more likely than autistic women to be heterosexual. 3, 5 In a Dutch study, for example, only 57 percent of autistic women reported being straight ...

In 2021, he joined a Black fathers’ support group and met a few other dads eager to discuss their unique challenges. They started their own podcast in 2023 called AutisHIM, a place where Black dads ...