Autistic

since 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:19 UTC

auto-detected in 74 stories

9 days ago

Autistic people and experts voice alarm at RFK’s ‘terrible’ approach to condition

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 11:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Health secretary is planning wide-ranging monitoring of autistic people’s health record and cuts to disability services

Autism experts and autistic people are pushing back on Robert F Kennedy’s “terri…

19 days ago

Autistic boy, 17, with cerebral palsy dies a week after he was shot by police

found 2025 › Apr › 13 (Sun) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Victor Perez, a 17-year-old boy described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled, was gunned down by Idaho police from behind a chain-link fence.

25 days ago

Autistic teen fighting for life after being shot nine times by police

found 2025 › Apr › 08 (Tue) @ 09:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Cops had responded to a call about a physical disturbance at the unnamed 17-year-old's family home in Pocatello on Saturday when multiple shots were fired, police said in a statement.

39 days ago

Autistic children bear hidden cost of violent police raids in Brazil’s favelas

found 2025 › Mar › 25 (Tue) @ 12:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Life in poor urban communities can resemble a war zone – but self-help groups are helping neurodiverse kids cope

In January, as about 500 police officers carried out a 15-hour raid in one of Rio de Ja…

52 days ago

Autistic AA driver who joked about dropping colleagues from a window was unfairly sacked by boss who thought it 'incredibly inappropriate' to 'make comments about physical harm', tribunal rules

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 14:22 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Adrian Lloyd-Penny said that he was going to drop night manager Lyndon Tyler and dispatcher Dave Boddison 'from a third storey b****y window' during a heated phone call.

60 days ago

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

found 2025 › Mar › 04 (Tue) @ 06:38 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

64 days ago

Autistic schoolgirl, 16, who 'took her own life' when she became youngest person in UK to be charged with terror offences made a 'shrine to Hitler' after being groomed online, inquest hears

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 18:24 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Autistic schoolgirl Rhianan Rudd,16, plotted to blow up a synagogue and became 'fixated' on Hitler after being groomed by a far-right extremist over the internet, an inquest heard today.

67 days ago

Autistic boy, 15, with mental age of 10 killed by police after coming to school with 'weapon'

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Chase de Balinhard, 15, was shot and killed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police while out for a walk in his neighborhood on February 9.

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