“Does he have autism?” Robert’s mother asked anxiously. I’m a behavioral/developmental pediatrician working in a front-line private practice for the last 45 years in a Bay Area suburb. The family had ...

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Underemployment is consistently one of the largest problems for autistic adults. Innumerable autistic traits contribute to autistic adults’ difficulties obtaining and maintaining employment. We ...

I came out as autistic during the pandemic. Being isolated for so long finally revealed that I had been “masking,” or performing social behaviors that are considered neurotypical, my entire life. And ...

I have autism. When I was a girl, I was called weird and difficult. I was asked why I couldn’t act right. I was often shunned by peers and adults. I was told that my behavior was bad or hurtful. I ...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently claimed that we will learn the cause of autism within a few months. Kennedy told reporters, “we’ve launched a massive testing and ...