Autistic people report poor health, low life satisfaction
Autistic children and adults report having poor physical and mental health and quality of life compared with the general population.
Autistic children and adults report having poor physical and mental health and quality of life compared with the general population.
Most autistic people want to and can make friends, though their relationships often have a distinctive air.
‘Autistic burnout’ is the intense physical, mental or emotional exhaustion, often accompanied by a loss of skills, that some adults with autism experience.
Following a series of scandals in the United Kingdom over people with autism being held against their will and mistreated in hospitals, a watchdog group has issued a legal challenge to the government.
For many autistic adults, the golden years are tarnished by poor health, poverty and, in some cases, homelessness. Their plight reveals huge gaps in care.
For people with fragile X syndrome, progress in daily living skills and behavior tends to stall later in life.
Too few students with autism or intellectual disabilities have sex education. That omission may prevent them from forming fulfilling romantic relationships, and it may make them targets of abuse.
A delay in autistic children’s brain responses to sound may continue into adulthood.
Autistic adults have more job opportunities than they used to, and a small neurodiverse workforce is thriving — but mainly at select companies that invest heavily in such employees.
Most of the top contenders for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination have released comprehensive plans for disability policies.