These studies highlighted how autistic people face issues with everyday tasks that ... Autistic people may have greater success in identifying a simple shape embedded within a more complex design ...

“As Gus ages into adulthood, the list of his challenges that worry me grows longer,” Judith Newman writes of her autistic 18-year-old son. “But the two questions that keep me up at night ...

2020). These are periods of autistic burnout, inertia, meltdown, and shutdown that shape many autistic people’s lives. Although autism self-advocates talk about BIMS periods often, the lack of ...

Autistic individuals face elevated risk of negative outcomes ... of this risk but are seldom included in research efforts that shape police training as well as interventions designed to improve ...