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For the ‘millionth’ time a parent said to me today: “Everyone seems to have autism these days”. It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last. I understood their concern. When you hear about diagnosis rates increasing dramatically – one study points to a 787% increase in autism diagnoses between 1998 and 2018 – it’s natural to …

Summary: Some autistic teens mask their traits to “pass” as non-autistic in social settings, but a new study reveals the hidden cognitive toll. Using EEG, researchers found these teens show faster automatic responses to faces and dampened emotional reactivity, suggesting their brains may adapt to cope with social demands. This is the first direct evidence of how masking manifests in …

Autism spectrum disorder has long challenged both science and medicine. Each type presents differently – from speech delays to social difficulties to repetitive behaviors – making it hard to define and diagnose in a clear, unified way. Parents, clinicians, and researchers have often worked with uncertainty, relying on broad categories that mask the condition’s complexity. Researchers at Princeton …

There are at least four distinct subtypes of autism, a new study finds, helping to explain the various trajectories of individuals on the spectrum and offering a path toward more targeted treatments. Researchers grouped over 5,000 children ages 4 to 18 with autism based on more than 230 traits like social interactions, repetitive behaviors and developmental milestones to arrive at …

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Autism has long been seen as a single—if highly heterogeneous—condition. But rather than one continuous spectrum, there are distinct autism subtypes, each tied to its own genetic signature, a new study suggests. The research, published 9 July in the journal Nature Genetics, connects genetic differences to specific patterns in how autism traits appear, supporting the notion that there are “many …

By leveraging a person-centered computational approach to phenotypic data from more than 5000 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers have identified four biologically and clinically distinct subtypes of autism and their underlying genetic signals. These four subtypes are: Social and Behavioral Challenges, Mixed ASD with Developmental Delay, Moderate Challenges, and Broadly Affected. “It’s important for families to have groups …

Summary: A massive Danish study of over 1.2 million children has found no evidence that aluminum in early childhood vaccines increases the risk of neurological, autoimmune, or allergic disorders. Researchers analyzed 50 chronic conditions — including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, asthma, and juvenile arthritis — and found no association with cumulative aluminum exposure from vaccines given before age two. …

A 24-year study of more than 1.2 million Danish children adds to the already considerable evidence finding no tie between exposure to aluminum-adjuvanted childhood vaccines and autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. The study, published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, comes less than a month after US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert …

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jade Wilson, a 31-year-old senior software engineer at Microsoft, about being diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Business Insider has verified Wilson’s employment and diagnoses. The following has been edited for length and clarity. When I first started working at Microsoft as a software engineer in 2022, I didn’t know I was …