What does giddiness or joy or anger feel like? To a group of autistic adults participating in a Rutgers study, giddiness manifests like "bees"; small moments of joy are like "a nice coffee in the ...

Autistic people are sometimes misunderstood as lacking empathy or emotional awareness, but the relationship between autism ...

Emotion regulation is a universal challenge for adults and children alike and the primary reason why individuals seek psychological support. Autistic children’s emotion regulation is impacted by ...

A major new study reveals that autistic children’s brains process faces differently, and those differences may begin earlier ...

A neuroimaging study in Hong Kong found that a brain region involved in language and social processing responded less strongly to emotionally meaningful sentences in autistic children than in ...

Newswise — Emotional overload is common, but for autistic individuals, it can happen more often and with greater intensity. It happens when the demands of a situation exceed a person’s ability to cope ...

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which may help to explain why emotional expressions are sometimes misinterpreted ...

Contrary to common perceptions and years of research that autistic people can't describe their emotions or often have muted emotional responses, a new study concludes that many autistic adults are in ...

Research shows that given the difficulties in navigating social relationships, children with more autistic traits might be prone to less attuned self-conscious emotions after transgression (displaying ...

Children with autism have trouble identifying emotional tones in speech because of differences in a brain region that processes social information, research shows. The findings, published in the ...

Many autistic people experience difficulties in expressing their emotions. This can result in increased anxiety, depression, anger and physical health problems. Research shows autistic adults are ...