Gardner-Wright added that this is a big indicator and an internal experience at that — you cannot look at a person and know if they feel like an outsider. The feeling could be overpowering or could be ...

TRADITIONALLY, women and gender-diverse people were less likely to be identified as autistic because they didn’t fit the ...

These biases and shortcomings are the subject of “Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls,” a new book by brain imaging expert Gina Rippon. Rippon, professor emeritus of ...

In The Unmasking Workbook for Autistic Adults, I wrote about the transformative power of unmasking, and I created a roadmap ...

If you spend an hour on any forum where autistic women show up to support each other and share their experiences, you’ll see one version or another of the same story. In this story, an autistic woman, ...

So many women with autism struggle to accept themselves. Often, they see themselves as "too much"—yet at the same time, not enough. Like many other women with autism spectrum disorder, I learned from ...

The article "Until I had my son, I did not realise that these characteristics could be due to autism: motherhood and family experiences of Spanish autistic mothers", signed by the lecturer and ...

CRANSTON – The search for a missing autistic woman is now being treated as a criminal investigation, Cranston's police chief announced in a news release Friday night. On Wednesday, a woman reported to ...

Help find missing autistic woman Kristina Potts, 31, last seen in Indianapolis. She may need medical assistance. Call 911 ...

Mark Anthony Richardson conned babysitters into changing his diaper. July 22, 2011 — -- An Oklahoma man was sentenced to three years in prison after he posed as an autistic, diaper wearing teen ...

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