Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived - or "pass" - as non-autistic.

As autism ignites a national conversation, Temple Grandin has something to say The world-renowned autism expert shares her thoughts with NBC News after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order to protect residents in his state from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial autism database.

RFK Jr. and Trump are talking about an ‘autism registry.’ This sounds disturbingly familiar. Nazi Germany collected medical data about the disabled, including those on the autism spectrum ...

Between Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent false claims that autism “destroys families” and the reports of a since-abandoned plan for a an autism registry tracking diagnosed individuals, getting ...

The imagery gained even more prominence when the US-based organisation Autism Speaks, founded in 2005, adopted a blue puzzle piece as its logo.

To many autistic people, the puzzle piece represents stigma, exclusion and a harmful push to make them conform.

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For the first time, a biological pathway has been identified that might explain the connection between autism and the common chemical bisphenol A.

"Exposure to plastic chemicals during pregnancy has already been shown in some studies to be associated with subsequent autism in offspring," Anne-Louise Ponsonby, professor and lead researcher ...

Prenatal exposure to higher levels of bisphenol A, a plastic chemical known to leach into our foods and drinks, has been linked to autism spectrum disorder in boys.