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 ...

While individuals with autism can learn and apply visual categories, they do so more slowly, exhibit unique brain activity during learning, and face challenges when generalizing to new shapes.

Autism is a lifelong neurotype, which affects around 3% of people. It is linked to differences in communication and sensory processing. Women have historically been underdiganosed with autism ...