Autism’s Race Problem
For years, the medical community has studied and treated autism as a “white person’s” disease, and, today, research…
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What the Neurodiversity Movement Gets Wrong About Autism
I think it’s great that people want to normalize autism. But sometimes they gloss over how disabling it…
Yet Another Case for Vaccination
A large-scale study shows that autism may be dramatically less likely in vaccinated children.
The Very Weak and Complicated Links Between Mental Illness and Gun Violence
Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth MacLeish address our anxieties and correct our assumptions.
The Troubling Connection Between Pesticides and Autism
A new study provides more proof that pregnant mothers should stay far away from pesticide sprays.
Autism Shows Why Disease Is So Hard to Solve
What's not a cause of autism? Vaccines. What is? Genetics—but only in a partial, tangled, complicated way that we're still trying to figure out.
Our Public Schools Must Be More Autism-Friendly—Here’s Where to Start
We’ll continue to work toward discovering why more and more kids are being diagnosed, but in the meantime we need to provide help for the ones who are already on the spectrum. One frustrated mom proposes 10 easy-to-implement solutions.
To Make Friends, Autistic Kids Need Advice—and Space
Kids with autism need help when it comes to making friends—but they also need their independence.
The ‘DSM-5’: Introducing the Latest Edition of Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Bible
What does it mean that the American Psychiatric Association is switching from Roman numerals to Arabic? And will the critics ever be won over?