In elementary school, Ariel sat alone at a desk in the closet. She could see the class through a two-way mirror, but no one could see her. She doesn’t remember if it was a punishment, but she ...

We usually associate temper tantrums with toddlers or kids who can't get their way. While that may be true to a degree, I've since learned they can also be the result of kids having a hard time ...

How do you tell the difference between a tantrum and a meltdown? As the autistic parent of an autistic child, I have a unique perspective on this question. First, a reminder that meltdowns are not ...

John Frizzell always had a feeling he was different. The Hollywood film score composer could rattle off facts about chess puzzles, Immanuel Kant’s synthetic a priori knowledge and other esoteric ...

This is what meltdowns really look like from childhood through young adulthood. Calm, compassionate support can turn ...

There’s something so real about seeing a kid have a tantrum in public. They’ll throw themselves to the ground in the grocery store, shriek so loudly the whole city can hear, and turn red just because ...

Mental health conditions are common among autistic adults, with 50% of autistic adults having a co-occurring condition, like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

The study, which was recently published in Research in Autism, showed that hospitalizations for mental health conditions were common for autistic adults, with more than one-third, or 36%, of all ...