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Many parents wonder whether autism can be recognised during the first year of life. While autism cannot usually be diagnosed reliably in early infancy, research…

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference that affects how a child communicates, relates to others and experiences the world around them. Although autism occurs in people of…

Autism has historically been viewed through a lens that focused primarily on children, particularly boys with more obvious social, communication or behavioural differences. While autism…

Many parents first become concerned about autism when their son reaches adolescence. Although autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference present from early childhood, the teenage…

One of the most visible and yet often misunderstood aspects of autism is stimming. Many autistic adults describe stimming as an important part of how they…

Autism has been recognised and understood in many different ways over the past century. What began as descriptions of a small group of children with distinctive social…

Autism has traditionally been explained using medical and psychological theories that sought to understand why autistic people think, communicate and behave differently from non-autistic people. Over the past 40…

Every week we meet women who are finally understood after decades of masking, burnout and misdiagnosis. Jo Condon reflects on late-diagnosed autistic women and why…

If you are autistic, you may have spent much of your life feeling that you experience the world differently from other people. You may find…