Tag: Autism

A new study out of England says that transgender and nonbinary people are also more likely to be autistic or display autistic traits than those who are cisgender. The research, published in the September 2019 issue of the European Psychiatry journal, studied 177 people. Of those, a total of 14% of those who were transgender or nonbinary were also autistic, while an additional 28% were not diagnosed as autistic, but displayed autistic traits. The authors found higher than average levels of...

Nick Starr-Street records a black woman he confronted for playing music loudly at an apartment complex poolA gay white man who became infamous last month when a video of him repeatedly harassing a black woman at a pool went viral has now claimed that his racism is caused by his autism. And here’s the thing — he might be telling the truth, at least according to one autism researcher. The man in question, Nick Starr-Street, confronted two black women, Felecia...