Black women and girls on the spectrum have long been under-diagnosed and overlooked. A diagnosis arrives late for many of them — or not at all.

The summer before sixth grade, I was diagnosed with autism. Though it took until I was almost 12 to get that official verdict, my parents had noticed the signs for years. I didn’t start talking until ...

Looking from the outside in, Leland Vittert seems to have it all together. He’s a successful broadcast journalist who hosts his own nightly show on NewsNation, “On Balance,” following a decade at Fox ...

There has been a growing demand in recent years to separate “profound autism” into its own diagnosis, outside current parameters. Since 2013, autism diagnoses have been split into three levels, ...

Autism is finally getting the kind of visibility that goes beyond medical definitions and into real, lived stories. A growing number of actors, musicians, writers, and TV personalities are talking ...

The Trump administration announced late last month "bold actions to tackle the autism epidemic.” President Trump said there was a possible link between acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, ...

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...

Note: "This is Me" references the penultimate song in the 2008 Disney Channel movie "Camp Rock," sung by Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas. The song had gotten into my head while working on this piece. The ...