Autistic adults' lives are haunted by derision and dislike. Finding community with other autistic adults is often the only ...

Throughout her career, Olympic rower Caragh McMurtry faced challenges she now understands as characteristic of her autism.

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

Professor Francesca Happé, an expert in autism from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London, says that historically research has mainly focused on men. This has shaped ...

It’s extremely rare for people to reply with a woman’s name, thanks to a popular misconception of autism as a condition overwhelmingly affecting men – those often socially awkward ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more difficult to identify in women than it is in men. This is because diagnostic criteria for autism was historically created with men in mind. Below ...

Historically, diagnostic tools have been developed based on studies of autistic men and boys, meaning many women do not fit the traditional mold of what autism is “supposed” to look like.