Girls with autism tend to start puberty earlier than their peers do, which may intensify their social difficulties and put them at an increased risk for bullying and mental health conditions such as depression.
William Mandy talks about the golden hours for writing and why — when there isn’t a pandemic — he likes attending conferences in new parts of the world.
Autistic children’s traits track with subtle, autism-like behaviors in their mothers; women with these traits may also carry a genetic predisposition to the condition.
Gender and sexuality appear to be more varied among autistic people than among neurotypical people. What do scientists know about the connection?
Autistic men show a greater imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling in the brain than autistic women do, which could explain sex differences in ‘camouflaging.’
People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are.
The Netflix series that follows 20-something autistic adults looking for love is well intentioned but fails to capture reality and is riddled with bad advice.
Like so many other events this year, autism’s biggest annual conference — the International Society for Autism Research meeting — was forced to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Autistic girls’ brains respond more strongly to social stimuli than do autistic boys’.
Brothers and sisters of people with autism are both about two to three times more likely than the general population to have an autistic child themselves.