The new doll reinforces the very stereotypes about neurodivergence it claims to challenge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mattel's new autistic Barbie has been widely praised online for giving representation to the community. But not everyone, ...

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Lots of people tell 20-year-old Paige Layle that she “doesn’t look autistic,” from commenters on her TikTok videos to an interviewer at a local TV station. They usually mean it as a compliment — but ...

Autistic people are more likely than non-autistic people to hyperfocus on things. This is known as monotropism, where the ...