56 h. ago This Morning star shares major health diagnosis as 'life comes crashing down'

This Morning star Scott Miller says his life was 'thrown in the air and came crashing down' after being diagnosed with autism at the age of 47

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3 d. ago Undiagnosed entertainment: how Hollywood awkwardly dodges autism

Eccentric, blunt-speaking characters who present as being on the spectrum are everywhere on our screens – but why are their creators so reluctant to state it openly?I received my autism diagnosis about a decade into my career as a comedian and about three decades into being alive. In the eyes of some of the frothier comment section trolls, being a comedian means that I can’t be autistic, despite the likes of Fern Brady and Stewart Lee proving otherwise. This is because people are keener on stereotypes than admitting they know nothing about autism – why is the general level of knowledge so poor?With Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr doing their best to make autism terrifying again, either by implying that it causes sieg heiling or by bringing back the MMR autism panic of the 1990s (along with actual measles), it struck me that we autistic people don’t have a lot of reliable representation to fall back on. There’s Rain Man, of course, and Ben Af...

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4 d. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – with a little help from John, Paul, George and Ringo

The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdomHalfway through Maybe I’m Amazed, there’s a photograph of John Harris’s son, James, with one of his heroes. James is a young-looking 10 in knee-length shorts decorated with stars. Ian Hunter of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople stands beside him, a hand gently around his shoulder. “Sixty-nine years separate them,” Harris writes. “Here is proof of how songs and their creators find fans in the most unlikely of places.”Maybe I’m Amazed is the story of a growing child’s love of music, but it’s more than that: it’s also about how songs provided a whole world for James, and his family, after his autism diagnosis. It marks a departure for Harris, whose previous journalism, aside from his political work for the Guardian, has involved editing magazines and writing columns, reviews and other books about music. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Millie Bright: ‘I’m really proud of Lucy Bronze for sharing her story’

Chelsea and England defender on the power of football, the pitch named after her and praise for her teammate for talking about her ADHD and autism diagnosis“When you experience the things we have in the women’s game, it does open your eyes to the struggles of others,” says Millie Bright. “It does make you more aware of all kinds of different barriers people might face. You really appreciate the struggles that people have to go through and the constant barriers and battles that have to be fought every single day just to exist. Literally just to exist. You’re not asking to be better than anyone, you’re just asking to exist and be able to do what you love doing, whatever that is, in sport or beyond sport; things that are just part of living a full life, and everyone deserves a full life.”The Chelsea and England defender is sitting in the small stand at Cobham FC’s brilliantly named Leg O’ Mutton Field talking about the power of football. Last year Bright was back in Killamarsh, the vil...

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1 week ago Bella Ramsey opens up on autism diagnosis during The Last of Us

The 21-year old said their diagnosis had been “helpful” to better understand their identity.

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1 week ago The character traits that might mean you are autistic – and how to get a diagnosis

More adults than ever seeking truths about being on the autism spectrum

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1 week ago Bella Ramsey received autism diagnosis after crew member spotted signs

Actor says they were diagnosed while filming first season of The Last of Us

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1 week ago Bella Ramsey shares ‘freeing’ autism diagnosis: ‘Enables me to walk through world with more grace’

Actor says they were diagnosed while filming first season of The Last of Us

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2 w. ago Bella Ramsey admits being 'properly in love' amid rumored romance with female actress

Bella Ramsey revealed they were 'properly in love' while filming the second season of HBO Max's The Last Of Us amid rumored romance with Maisy Stella.

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2 w. ago The Last Of Us’s Bella Ramsey describes receiving autism diagnosis as ‘freeing’

The 21-year-old said the diagnosis has been ‘helpful’ to understand their identity better.

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2 w. ago England Lionesses hero Lucy Bronze bravely opens up on autism diagnosis

England and Chelsea player Lucy Bronze has spoken about how her diagnoses of autism and ADHD four years ago helped her understand herself - and propelled her career

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2 w. ago Still think autism is a 'boy thing'? Wrong: we're vastly under

If asked to name someone famous, fictional or real who is 'on the spectrum', most people give the same sorts of replies. Raymond Babbitt from the movie Rain Man is usually favourite.

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2 w. ago Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’ – podcast

Marina Hyde on 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – they’re all more likable than the real thing. The actor Michael Sheen grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. When John Harris first started noticing that his baby had some unusual quirks, he wasn’t too worried. Then came an autism diagnosis – and a fear of the future. Could a shared passion for music give James a way to shine? Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Daydreaming, social awkwardness: Has the internet diagnosed you with autism or ADHD?

Autism and ADHD diagnoses are spiking. But some psychiatrists argue we’ve reached the point of ‘overdiagnosis’. So, how did we get here, and why is the internet making it so much worse?

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3 w. ago Love Island star Camilla Thurlow reveals daughter Nora, two, has been diagnosed with autism

Love Island star Camilla Thurlow has shared a heartfelt post on social media in which she explained that her two year old daughter Nora received her autism diagnosis last month

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3 w. ago ITV Love Island star Camilla Thurlow's daughter, two, has been diagnosed with autism

Reality star Camilla Thurlow took to social media on Sunday to share a post from the heart in which she explained that little Nora received her autism diagnosis last month

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3 w. ago The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?

A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathologyFor many years, people living in Lyme, Connecticut, were plagued by mysterious flu-like symptoms, rashes and joint pains. Patients were convinced that their symptoms had something to do with the deer that roamed the nearby woods and the ticks they frequently found clinging to their clothes. But because the symptoms were so ill-defined and there was no treatment, physicians dismissed the symptoms as psychosomatic.Then in 1975, alarmed by the exceptionally high rates of juvenile arthritis in Lyme, the Connecticut health department decided to investigate. It took seven years but eventually, in 1982, they identified a spiral-shaped bacterium in the midgut of deer ticks that was also present in the blood of sick people. All it took to spark the disorder was for an infected tick to latch on to an unsuspecting victim and inject the bacterium under their skin....

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