Two dads who make a podcast about the experience of raising an autistic child have said the response has been "phenomenal" ...

Key points. 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 ...

A growing number of Black fathers with autistic children are looking to be more visible in the national autism conversation ...

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.

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.