Few diagnoses have broadened their diagnostic boundaries as much or as quickly as autism. This has affected those with the ...

It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...

Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.

The number of people diagnosed with autism will likely decrease if a new definition of the disorder is adopted by mental health experts later this year. Doctors aren't sure what the implications of ...

Autistic people often experience difficulties with social communication. It's so common, in fact, that it's one of the central criteria for an autism diagnosis. For as long as we have been diagnosing ...

When you finally receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis that reflects your strengths and the challenges you face, it can be life-changing. But for people with both autism and attention-deficit ...

The number of children diagnosed with autism has skyrocketed over the last decade, with roughly one in 110 children said to have the condition. But that could change soon. The manual that doctors use ...

The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM5, would do away with the diagnoses of Asperger’s ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Dozens of studies have debunked the theory, but ...

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump ...