These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem.

Ramsey said that these autism symptoms have actually helped their work: “I’ve always been watching and learning from people. Having to learn more manually how to socialize and interact with ...

“Autism doesn’t destroy families. It’s the ableism that does,” said Tyla Grant, who was diagnosed with autism at 17. She ...

Minnesota’s first lady, Gwen Walz, slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F Kennedy Jr. over comments he made ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest claims about autism aren’t just demonstrably false — they’re also an insult to one of the ...

Information processing discrepancies are well documented in autism. Autistic individuals appear to experience more traumatic events than non-autistics. Sensory and information processing differences ...

On April 16, 2025, RFK Jr. held a news conference to speak on his plans to “eliminate” autism. He pushed the resoundingly debunked claim that some sort of “environmental exposure” ( meaning vaccines) ...

Getty Images For most autistic people, their neurodiversity is thought to arise from the combined action of thousands of different gene variants (Credit: Getty Images) "This is not like the autism ...

The education of autistic children and young people in western societies has been heavily influenced by a medicalised understanding of autism. This means considering autism as a disorder ...