Maintaining eye contact can sometimes be difficult for autistic folks. Practice and therapy can help, but they’re not the only way to build relationships. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a term used ...

Around one in 36 US children are known to have Autism Spectrum Disorder. Yet autistic individuals are portrayed in the media, outside of a handful of shows, as strange savants: gifted in a small set ...

A top psychologist has revealed the tell-tale signs of autism in adults that are often dismissed. It follows a recent study from King's College London that found nine in ten autistic adults could be ...

In this exclusive MedPage Today video, two autistic physicians -- Stacy Greeter, MD, a psychiatrist in Florida, and Mary Doherty, MD, founder of Autistic Doctors International -- share their candid ...

Narcissism and autistic spectrum disorders tend to co-occur in families. I regard narcissism as a listening disorder, that is as a difficulty hearing and responding positiively to others' perspectives ...

A family member of mine, who is autistic and whose dating dramas could honestly fuel a movie franchise, is among them; they got me into it as soon as it went live. Speaking to Tudum, executive ...