Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are differently wired. Now, new evidence shows they are right. Researchers have found atypical numbers of brain cells in two key areas of ...

Recently, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been the focus of much conversation and confusion. With so much information and misinformation available, it's important to separate fact from fiction. In ...

Autism masking involves consciously or unconsciously suppressing natural autistic traits, often to avoid stigma or fit in socially. While masking may provide short-term benefits in certain social ...

The Editors at Communications Psychology and Nature Communications invite research on autism in adolescence and adulthood. Understanding development across the lifespan of the heterogenous autistic ...

Diagnoses have climbed by 175 percent in just the last decade—with the greatest increases in girls and women. Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being diagnosed ...

Mattel's new autistic Barbie has been widely praised online for giving representation to the community. But not everyone, including some autistic people or their family members, is sold on the new ...