Life is masking, masking is life,” declared an autistic woman insightfully in a piece of research, testifying to the truth of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are about 5,437,988 adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States. That’s about 2.21% of the adult ...

Diana read a book about girls with a milder form of autism. She recognized herself in those pages, “So much of what I read mirrored my experiences as a child and young adult,” she recalls.

The signs of autism in adult males include a range of sensory ... The doctor may ask about childhood experiences, talk with people who knew them during childhood, and ask about current and ...

Experts have warned that an adult autism diagnosis is very different from a child's, and revealed three signs that someone could be suffering with the developmental disorder. Autism is a spectrum ...

The Editors at Communications Psychology and Nature Communications invite research on autism in adolescence ... Autistic people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed they deeply ...

The problem is, there’s no established procedure for diagnosing ASD in adults. So, adult autism specialists are hard to find. It might be best to ask your primary care doctor or psychologist for ...

The event provided adults with autism an opportunity to share their experiences ... “So sometimes you could have a high-functioning adult with autism and not even know that person has ...

She says that adult autism programs help expand on techniques and experiences taught in early childhood. “We want to make sure that there’s reasonable goals and objectives for our ...

Adults awaiting an autism diagnosis may have to wait up to 18 years before being assessed. The Oxfordshire Adult Autism Diagnostic and Support Service (OAADSS) stopped taking on new patients at ...

The Oxfordshire Adult Autism Diagnostic and Support Service (OAADSS) stopped taking on new patients at the end of November due to the the size of its current waiting list. In documents seen by the ...