Goalkeeper Safia Middleton-Patel is part of the Wales squad for Euro 2025. She is sparky, thoughtful, and has an infectious laugh. She is also autistic. Overstimulation has sent her to bed, exhausted, for a week. A misunderstood social interaction can ruin her mood for months. She will drive miles past a petrol station to find...
Getty Images A Welsh actress says a “huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders” after being diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Kimberley Nixon, star of Channel 4’s Fresh Meat, developed perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), after giving birth to her son during the 2020 pandemic. She said her worries about her baby’s wellbeing escalated...
Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted. This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to develop a “real-world data platform” using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate “the root causes of autism.” The announcement comes after officials previously...
Stars from the reality television show Love On The Spectrum went on the defensive after Robert F Kennedy Jr commented that people with autism make limited contributions to society. People with autism “will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a...
Middleton-Patel found herself firmly in the spotlight at the age of just 18 as she made both her club debut on loan at Coventry United and her senior international bow for Wales in the same week in February 2023. But the whirlwind period proved overwhelming for the young shot stopper who sought help after admitting...
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has pledged “a massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism in five months. Experts cautioned that finding the causes of autism spectrum disorder – a complex syndrome that has been studied for decades – will not be straightforward, and called the effort misguided and...
Chelsea and England defender Lucy Bronze speaks exclusively to BBC Sport, telling former Lionesses team-mate Alex Scott about her autism and ADHD diagnosis, and how it affects her life on and off the pitch. Watch the full interview on iPlayer READ MORE: Having autism has worked to my advantage in football – Bronze Source link...
