The Interacting With Autism project has created the short video above, intended to show what life is like for people with autism and Asperger’s (which is high-functioning autism). The live with ...

Two years ago, one of my students came to my office and told me that she wanted to major in psychology. It was her second try at Agnes Scott College, having dropped out a decade earlier. During that ...

Asperger’s syndrome is no longer a stand-alone diagnosis. It’s now part of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In other words, people with signs and symptoms of Asperger’s receive an ASD diagnosis.

Asperger’s syndrome is sometimes described as high-functioning autism. It’s now diagnosed under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is a group of neurodevelopmental conditions that ...

Jam-packed thoughts scramble in my brain. As I talk, speech disrupts my thinking, and I cannot control how fast my brain works. Taking in too much information is an overload, as if listening to too ...

What is this Asperger's Syndrome, anyway? After many years of knowing that I was different, I finally learned why when I read Wired magazine's "The Geek Syndrome," which described an autism spectrum ...