Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball ...

Autism advocate Andi Putt responds to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, who said that the neurodevelopmental condition "destroys families" Andi Putt When I heard ...

By Maggie Astor Azeen Ghorayshi and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks this week that autism “destroys” children have prompted outrage among many autistic people, who said they had ...

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.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses autism at a news conference in D.C. on April 16. When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D ...