Longform

A young couple’s story.

On a child diagnosed with autism.

The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year-old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

Should autism be celebrated? A look at the neurodiversity movement.

Autistic individuals have great difficulty breaking into many professions. One exception may be computer programming, where the difficulty of forming emotional attachments and communicating is not necessarily a problem.

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s.