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Topic: Autistic

Group of People with differing brain patterns (Getty Images)

Why signs of autism are hard to pin down

Matthew Rozsa
Abstract portrait of a woman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Those with autism feel pain more acutely

Matthew Rozsa
"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" by Eric M. Garcia (Photo illustration by Salon/Kristin Herbruck/Mariner Books)

Who speaks for the autistic?

Matthew Rozsa
Sam Alexander, Ben Alexander's father, assists Ben during a math language class at Tulane University in New Orleans. Ben Alexander, 22, has nonverbal autism, a condition that became apparent when he was 2 years old. (AP/Jonathan Bachman)

When autism is physically impairing

Matthew Rozsa
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2016, an Israeli soldier on the autism spectrum works on a computer as his commander writes on a whiteboard in a small office in downtown Tel Aviv. A military program called “seeing into the distance,” provides training and assistance to Israelis on the autism spectrm who wish to enlist in the military. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Tech may be exploiting autistic workers

Julianne Tveten - In These Times

Matthew Rozsa - PolicyMic
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