Many of the autistic adult clients who come to my organization for coaching didn’t know they were autistic until their 20s, 30s, 40s or even later. For most of them, learning they are autistic later ...

In elementary school, Ariel sat alone at a desk in the closet. She could see the class through a two-way mirror, but no one could see her. She doesn’t remember if it was a punishment, but she ...

Clinicians are meeting more and more adult patients who think they "have autism"—but were not diagnosed as children. This apparent increased frequency of adults presenting with self-diagnosed autism ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder now affects approximately 1 in 31 children in the United States, according to the CDC’s 2025 ADDM ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While every autistic person is different, common signs of the condition include difficulty in understanding social rules and ...

The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) is one of the most widely used and thoroughly researched caregiver interview ...

I'm autistic. At least, I strongly believe that I might be, but I can't be sure because, like many adults in the UK, I've been stuck in limbo on an NHS waiting list for a diagnosis for over two years ...

A significant majority of autistic individuals over 40 in the UK are living without an official diagnosis, new research reveals. Researchers at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, ...

Evidence suggests the NDIS led to Australia having some of the highest rates of diagnosed autism in the world.