Symptoms present differently for everyone, and many of the traits are common for people without autism, like enjoying routines or enjoying going down rabbit holes of information. But to meet the ...

she said. (Ben Gray / The Associated Press) But to meet the diagnostic definition of autism, the symptoms must cause significant impairment, said Dr. Arthur Westover, a psychiatrist who ...

Details of the proposed CDC study have not been formally announced, but the Washington Post said the agency plans to analyze ...

“The rate of autism is as much as it’s always been. Now, it’s just identified better,” Fisher told Healthline. “A lot of it ...

But to meet the diagnostic definition of autism, the symptoms must cause significant impairment, said Dr. Arthur Westover, a psychiatrist who specializes in autism at the University of Texas ...

Living with autism means seeing the world differently -- sometimes more clearly, sometimes more intensely, but always ...

Before 1991, the federal government lumped children with autism in with other "intellectual disabilities." In 1994, the definition of autism included Asperger syndrome and children on the milder ...