People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in ...

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Last year, Health Secretary Kennedy thrust autism into the national spotlight, calling it an epidemic and vowing to investigate what he characterized as its environmental causes. It struck a nerve in ...

While some people feel moments of loneliness or social anxiety from time to time, investigative reporter Christina Buttons felt that way most of her life. She spent much of her time alone, struggling ...

New data about autism should be celebrated, not feared. That's what autistic people like Eric Garcia want people to remember as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spreads ...

The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalised understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder, with a focus ...

Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

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Georgia has signed new legislation creating voluntary specialty license plates for people with autism or other developmental ...

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An autistic meltdown is an intense reaction to sensory or emotional overload in autistic people. When an autistic person becomes overstimulated or unable to cope with their environment, they may ...