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Topic: autism spectrum

Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Neurotypicals: An explainer

Matthew Rozsa
Group of People with differing brain patterns (Getty Images)

Why signs of autism are hard to pin down

Matthew Rozsa
Beto O'Rourke in front of a candlelight vigil at the Immanuel Church for victims of the El Paso shooting (Justin Sullivan/MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Beto and "Joker" on gun violence

Matthew Rozsa
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How the autistic are casually belittled

Matthew Rozsa
Temple Grandin (AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Reading fiction with Temple Grandin

Ralph James Savarese
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Getty/Alex Wong)

Special-needs scandal at State Dept.

Matthew Rozsa
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer; German and Austrian troops in Vienna, Austria (AP/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

Hans Asperger, Nazi collaborator

Matthew Rozsa
Elmo, Matthew Rozsa, Alan Muraoka, and Julia (Property of Salon)

"Sesame Street," Julia and me

Matthew Rozsa
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Someone hurt my son

Susan Senator
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On the job market, with autism

Michael S. Bernick, Richard Holden
A portrait of the author. (Salon/Flora Thevoux)

I'm a liberal because I'm autistic

Matthew Rozsa

WATCH: One person with autism

Matthew Rozsa

LISTEN: Intersectional autism

Matthew Rozsa
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Mark Kennedy
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Katie McDonough
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