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Video: Autistic women tell stories of late diagnosis… and we had all suffered from some form of mental illness. It was actually due to my own mental illness that the idea of a video and the energy to make it was possible. I was in a manic bipolar phase at the time when the idea came to me, and subsequently I was able to spend hours developing the idea and producing the actual video. I put out a request on my blog asking for any women who would like to take part. I certainly wasn’t expecting as many …

Boy's touching video about his autism goes viral… George Yionoulis had the idea to made a video to help his fourth-grade class better understand his autism. In it he shares his experience with autism and talks … Video (Responsive)."]} … Boy's touching video about his autism goes viral …

From denial to acceptance: Diagnosed with autism at 24… I started attending social skills and support groups. On the Internet, I discovered the autism blogosphere and YouTube videos by people with autism. I found their personal experiences about life on the autism spectrum to be a lot more …

When people say "I love someone with autism to the moon and back"… I knew no other autism families when I was a young child on the autism spectrum. Looking back at my life through the videos and photos my parents took interacting with me, I know they certainly lived this quote. As a speaker and …

One family’s story of navigating their son’s Down syndrome/autism dual diagnosis … and I’d like to share a bit about my son, Jake. Jake, 14, is just like most other kids his age. He loves to watch music videos on his Kindle and is a wonderful dancer. He has a good throwing arm, likes to play basketball and loves to swim. Just …