The event was held in recognition of Autism Acceptance Month, focusing on shifting the conversation from awareness to acceptance, understanding, and inclusion.

This indeed is a real and severe presentation of the illness, but there exists another, equally unsuspected form that is equally insidious: high-functioning depression. People with high ...

Autism rates reach historic high: About 1 in 31 children in the U.S. (3.2%) are now identified with autism, marking a 22% rise since 2020 and a 375% increase since 2000. Demographic shift ...

Many females may not know they are autistic until they are adults. Females with high functioning autism may internalize and mask their symptoms, leaving them without the right support ...

Kennedy has prioritized autism in his aim to “Make America Healthy Again." On the heels of a new report showing that rates of autism diagnoses have again increased, Health and Human Services ...

Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that rising rates of autism prevalence in the US reflect a “preventable” crisis-level epidemic that has been caused by an environmental toxin. Advocates for people ...

The statement further said the increase in autism prevalence “cannot be solely attributed to the expansion of diagnoses to include higher functioning children.” Yet the conclusions of the CDC ...

According to the National Autistic Society, by age 11 just one-fifth of girls with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism have been correctly diagnosed, compared with half of boys.

Kennedy Jr. said April 10 during a meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet that the government will know the cause of the "autism epidemic” by September, and will be able to "eliminate those ...

Some of the earliest studies on autism diagnosis from the 1960s and 1970s did estimate autism prevalence to be in the range of 2 to 4 cases for every 10,000 children, but that was many decades ago.

It was only then that she landed on a name to what she, and many others, had been experiencing: high-functioning depression.

The study reveals that ... Apr. 1, 2025 — In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new ... Repetitive Behaviors and ...