Two dads who make a podcast about the experience of raising an autistic child have said the response has been "phenomenal" and "humbling". Andy Williams and Gaz Hitchin from Shropshire released the ...

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 ...

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

Signs of autism in women can be more subtle than in men, and women with autism are often misdiagnosed or dismissed. Learn more about autism in adult women.

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 ...

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.

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