RFK JR. made waves with his speech at his first official press conference as the health secretary last week, as he made several wild and unsupported claims such as saying that autism is a "disease ...

Autism rates are on the rise among young kids in the United States, according to data from the CDC last week. The survey found autism prevalence in the U.S. increased from 1 in 36 children in 2020 ...

Here’s what autism isn’t, Gross says – something to be scared of or pity. “In truth, autism is just a neutral fact about us, it’s not necessarily a good or a bad thing,” she says.

The speech came less than 24 hours after Victor Perez, a 17-year-old Idaho teenager with autism, was laid to rest after being shot nine times by police this month.