The book Someone Like Me offers deeply human insights into what it means to live in a neurotypical world as a neurodivergent person.

Molly Siobhan Parker is on a quest to dispel myths around autism - especially autistic women. She was diagnosed at the age of 22 and is one of a growing number of newly-diagnosed adults. Diagnoses of ...

Liberals are furious at the Trump administration for taking a decisive step toward addressing one of the nation’s most pressing public health crises: the skyrocketing rates of autism. Earlier this ...

Call the Trump administration’s unscientific linking of Tylenol use by pregnant women with autism what it really is — misogyny. At yet another press conference short on facts but long on mendacious ...

Health Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday evening announced that the use of Tylenol (aka acetaminophen, paracetamol) during pregnancy is linked to autism—an unproven ...

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As an autistic woman living in the United Kingdom, I find something deeply chilling about the most powerful men in America instructing women on what to do with their bodies and babies. This is even ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A physician who writes about challenges with navigating healthcare. President Trump told the American public on Monday that ...

For years, autism has been mostly studied—and diagnosed—through a male-centric lens. But over the past two decades, awareness about how autism presents in women has grown, leading to a rise in ...

I am an autistic woman and a mother. If you google autism and mothers, you will find thousands of articles written about and for women who are trying to parent autistic children. You will find a ...