Angela Kingdon had no friends, had been sacked from every job she had and was planning her own suicide, until she was ...

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A former Belfast minister who was diagnosed with autism in his late 50s said he spent many years "masking" his condition.

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A 2022 study published by the National Institutes of Health found that autistic people experience an imbalance between ...

A controversial but widely-used form of autism treatment, Parsons believed ABA could be an ideal solution, and at first she ...

My husband “Kurt’s” 70-year-old mother, “Pearl,” moved in with us shortly after her husband passed away last year. Over the ...

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Just as there are traits that suggest your child might be autistic, there are common developmental signs indicating your toddler is not autistic. A toddler who responds to their name, copies spoken ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism ...