She often says that if more people “saw through the noise” the way autistic people sometimes do, the world would act faster ...

When my son Sam was seven or eight years old, he spent a good bit of time on weekends upside down on a floral-print armchair in our living room. In one hand, he held Batman; in the other, Robin.

A single email changed everything for one woman. She had spent years in therapy built around Borderline Personality Disorder, ...

While women and children are statistically more likely to experience gender based violence (globally, 30 per cent of those ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition typically diagnosed in childhood. In part because symptoms of autism in girls and women can seem more subtle compared with symptoms in ...

A woman recently posted on a Reddit forum seeking judgment on her decision to provide her 12-year-old niece, who has autism ...

Recently, I sat with a group of autistic adults and saw a line in the sand. On many levels, it is a gender divide, but some men (amab) struggle with the issue as well. This line is sexual trauma. I ...

One troubling issue which comes up again and again for the autistic women I work with is the question of whether or not they can experience empathy. From what they tell me, they certainly experience ...

Channel 9’s Gaston County reporter Ken Lemon was in court Monday as the two women charged with abuse and neglect faced a ...

Researchers from Curtin University in Australia and multiple universities in Ethiopia report that prenatal folic acid and ...

To The Contrary is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

He simply has a different purchase on what’s what, and he decided it was high time that everyone else, including his parents— especially his parents—understand that the autistic mind can be legitimate ...