After years of anxiety, social confusion, and self-doubt, one woman finally learned she was autistic. Experts say many women are discovering the same thing in midlife.

John Frizzell always had a feeling he was different. The Hollywood film score composer could rattle off facts about chess puzzles, Immanuel Kant’s synthetic a priori knowledge and other esoteric ...

Adult autism diagnoses are rising, but new research suggests people diagnosed later may differ from those diagnosed as ...

When school ends at 18, so does much of the structured assistance that people with autism and their families have relied on ...

After a shift stocking coffee beans at grocery stores around Birmingham, Sarah Stewart sits in her mother’s office chair and logs into a virtual world. She straps on virtual reality goggles and ...

When our daughter Rebecca was young, she became more and more independent as the years flew by. Now a young adult, she is living in Seattle, has a job, is in love and is surrounded by good friends.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Wavelength Productions Jenifer and Kyle Jenifer Westphal, an Emmy-award-winning producer, teams up with her son Kyle ...

Words of wisdom from those who have lived, researched and written about autism When my son was diagnosed with autism at age 4, I had mixed emotions. I was relieved to finally have an explanation for ...

In a recent study published in Nutrients, researchers investigated the association between maternal daily consumption of diet sodas or aspartame during pregnancy and the risk of autism in offspring.

UK rap legend Giggs has joined his son ML on a remix of Own Motion - a song about life with autism. Originally written and released by South London rapper ML Own Motion is an introspective track that ...