For example, in a study of metaphor use, autistic adults matched allistic (nonautistic) adults on metaphor recognition but generated more creative novel metaphors. In another study of verbal ...

autistic-symposium/blockchain-data-engineering-toolkit’s past year of commit activity ...

Lauren Schiff, MD, a gynecologic surgeon at the UNC School of Medicine, had brought her then-4-year-old autistic son in for a routine pediatric visit, but her son was having a tough time adjusting ...

University College Dublin School of Medicine, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland As an autistic adult, even the word meltdown is humiliating. A shameful part of my past, no longer relevant to a senior doctor, ...

The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalized understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder ...

A friend and I were once talking about neurodiversity and trauma. She signaled that it seems like for whatever reason, autistic people seem to be paired with difficult lives. Our casual ...

An article by researchers at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló published in the journal Autism in adulthood has collected some of the needs detected in autistic women regarding motherhood.

Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that autism “destroys” children have prompted outrage among many autistic people, who said they had done things Mr. Kennedy claimed were impossible ...

A lawyer by training, with no medical background beyond freelance taxidermy, Kennedy has consistently peddled misinformation about autism and autistic people, presenting the condition as a vaccine ...