Previous studies have found that labeling an emotion can help manage stress, whether by writing it down or saying it out loud ...

Although autistic people are at increased risk of mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety, they are less likely to receive the support they need than people without autism, says ...

A Raleigh fourth grader is helping researchers highlight a hidden struggle for many children with autism: chronic GI issues.

If there's one thing to learn from Tommy Klein, it's that joy can exist everywhere, every single day.

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, ...

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 ...

Northern Ireland's independent autism reviewer said the statistics are important but should be "interpreted carefully".

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 ...

“I was failed by a system that rewards compliance,” Tyler Barnett tells PEOPLE. “It wasn’t built for me" ...