Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

COLUMBIA - Most parents fear hearing their child is autistic. But now parents may fear the opposite...that those who are autistic now, will not qualify under a new definition. The American Psychiatric ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid rising interest in the disorder across the country. For instance, some op-eds ...

The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM5, would do away with the diagnoses of Asperger’s ...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci, Copyright ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump ...