Last week, I saw another meme in my Facebook feed castigating parents for forcing their autistic kids to make eye contact and to sit with “quiet hands” rather than flapping. It’s a common theme in ...

Mattel introduces, 67 years after the original article, Autistic Barbie. “The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that ...

Repetitive motor behaviors such as hand flapping and rocking occur in more than one third of toddlers who do not meet ...

The first autistic Barbie doll has reached stores in the UAE, adding another layer to the long-running effort by toy makers ...

Maybe there are parents concerned about these things, but I certainly don’t know any. Parents of severely autistic kids have much bigger worries. An informal poll in two Facebook groups I belong to ...