Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash over his proposal to establish a national autism registry. The initiative, which aims to track and study all Americans ...

This worldview, if taken to the extreme, attributes any difficulties people with autism face purely to the way society is set up, instead of to the disability itself, and downplays or dismisses ...

Mild autism is the least severe level of autism. It is an unofficial term used to describe the diagnosis of level 1 autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or simply level 1 autism. This level of autism is ...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'autism registry' plan is facing massive backlash in the United States. National Institutes of Health is purportedly planning to launch a registry to measure Americans with autism ...

The fewer than 10 states with mandatory autism registries are getting renewed attention following purported new efforts by U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"People with autism can and will continue to date, hold jobs, marry, and pay taxes," Anthony K. Shriver and Timothy Shriver wrote Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated ...

Oftentimes in the job market, people with autism face unintentional discrimination. “To be diagnosed with autism, one of the diagnostic criteria is to have a social or communication impairment.

Editor’s note: The following is the fourth in a five-part series on the realities those with autism face in the Chippewa Valley. Today, we look at a neurodivergent college student and how she ...

Children with autism often face both digestive and social difficulties. The research suggests that problems in the gut may lead to chemical changes that affect how the brain works—particularly ...

“My fear world is the real world.” This animated sequence visualizes the social anxiety Norma feels on a daily basis. While not a perfect representation of the social anxiety many people with Autism ...