S HAH ALAM – Greta Thunberg’s detention by Israeli forces during the recent Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) mission highlighted the 22-year-old Swedish activist’s resilience, which she credited to her ...

The idea of autism as a single spectrum has shaped thinking for decades. But many autistic people and researchers now argue the metaphor is misleading.

More recently, the label “profound autism” has been suggested by the Lancet commission – an international group of experts – for autistic people with learning disabilities or high support needs. But ...

At 43 years old, married and a national cable-TV anchor, I still call my dad every evening to say good night — and that’s after having talked a few times during the day. It’s because my dad ...

Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus on the disorder has opened the way for them to argue their cause.

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Local artist, nonprofit founder and businessman John Truitt is using art to raise awareness about Asperger's syndrome. Truitt, a native Texan who moved to Durango in 2016, was diagnosed with ...

Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us and inserted genes into human DNA, with the ...

Holly Madison recently revealed that she is on the autism spectrum, and is lending her voice to support the cause in Las Vegas.

The phrases “autism spectrum” or “on the spectrum” have become "part of everyday language" since the phrase was coined in the 1980s by psychiatrist Dr Lorna Wing, whose work transformed how autism was ...

A NEWBRIDGE woman bereaved earlier this year by her son’s suicide, has said she’s “disgusted” with the attitude of the Junior Minister for Mental Health Mary Butler, as she pursues of including ‘dual ...

On Sept. 22, President Donald Trump and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that taking acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy ...