My travels with autism started long before my diagnosis at the age of three years and three months. My family noticed autistic features from around 15 months of age. I never looked at people and did ...

I came out as autistic during the pandemic. Being isolated for so long finally revealed that I had been “masking,” or performing social behaviors that are considered neurotypical, my entire life. And ...

As an autistic woman who has a full time job, lives on my own and even manages to blend in fairly well in social settings when I have the energy, my life has been a series of contradictions. I’ve been ...

As someone diagnosed as autistic in adulthood, it’s easy to forget that I’m autistic much of the time. What I mean is that “being autistic” isn’t something I consciously have to think about. Although ...

In my first few weeks at UCLA, I attended parties and burned myself out academically. Five weeks into my freshman year, I had to return home because I got mono and exhausted myself. I realized that to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For this installment of Forum, we wanted your thoughts on the claims by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that Tylenol taken by pregnant women could ...

'You tend to focus very much on the present tense when you’re the parent of an autistic child,' said Mark Neary ...