Carol Ross has volunteered with YAI for almost a year and says the best thing to come out of it is her friendship with Matthew Seagriff, a person YAI supports who lives on Long Island.

When Helen Hoang was writing her first book, The Kiss Quotient, she had recently been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. So, as she was trying to make sense of the diagnosis for herself, she pulled from her own life experiences and folded them into the romance novel, which chronicles the love life of Stella, a young woman on the autism spectrum.

While we don't know why LGBTQ+ identities may be more common among people with autism, we do know that support and acceptance are important.

I hadn’t looked into the Apple Watch much at all before receiving one as a gift a couple of years ago. I had filed the device (apathetically but neatly) under “sports gadgets that I don’t need to care about” and called it a day.

As an autistic, I always need to take my disability into account when I make consumer choices.

Living alone for the first time is an exciting—and yes, slightly nerve-wracking—experience.

This guide will help our trans and autistic community members know better what to expect when going to doctors or hospitals, understand rights and responsibilities, and strategize for safety planning, effective communication, accommodations, and more.

A good to-do list app isn’t just a dashboard of your life’s obligations—it can be the control room that makes it possible to keep chaos at bay.

Companies seek a competitive edge by hiring talented people, yet many capable workers are overlooked because they have autism.

Our culture suffers from an ‘eternal child’ bias — the reluctance to acknowledge or see individuals with developmental differences as mature and capable of self-determination. This bias extends to self-determination around sexual orientation and gender identity.

A psychologist, lecturer, poet and writer who is on the spectrum himself, Wenn is the father of an autistic child and grandfather to two autistic grandchildren. He contests the idea of what constitutes ‘being normal’? and throws light on autism in relation to gender and sexuality, emphasizing on how autism affects individuals on the spectrum especially girls and women.

Daniel Wendler grew up bullied, lonely, and awkward because of his diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, which is a condition on the autism spectrum. But when he started reaching out to other "outsiders", he discovered that he was not alone in his search for friendship​ and that the solution to our human need for connection can be found when we create a place of belonging for someone else.