What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

Facing the inevitability of taking over care for someone who can’t take care of themselves.

On the gender gap in diagnosis and treatment of autism.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

Kelli Stapleton, whose teenage daughter was autistic and prone to violent rages, had come to fear for her life. So she made a decision that perhaps only she could justify.

How Owen came to communicate again.

An undercover cop targets an autistic teen as a drug dealer.

A mother on her autistic child’s progression and regression.

When an autistic child goes missing.

On a child diagnosed with autism:

The worst part was that I knew he sensed it, too. In the same way that I know when he wants vegetable puffs or puréed fruit by the subtle pitch of his cries, I could tell that he also perceived the change—and feared it. At night he was terrified to go to bed, needing to hold my fingers with one hand and touch my face with the other in order to get the few hours of sleep he managed. Every morning he was different. Another word was gone, another moment of eye contact was lost. He began to cry in a way that was untranslatable. The wails were not meant as messages to be decoded; they were terrified expressions of being beyond expression itself.

A young couple’s story.

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s. And his lawyers started arguing a new version of the insanity defense.

A year with an autistic 20-year-old.

The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.

The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.