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The basic definition of autism that I’ve given you – that it’s lifelong and neurodevelopmental, and that there are ...

In the early 2000s, a relatively new concept emerged to describe a very specific type of desire. The word sapiosexual describes a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence. For these ...

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When Dame Uta Frith began researching autism six decades ago, it was an extremely rare, little-understood condition which psychologists referred to as “childhood psychosis”.

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Many readers will have been moved by the story of Maddie Lewis and her parents in The Weekend Australian last month.

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Exploring divine authority, political power, sectarian conflict, and moral leadership in a globalized, technologically advancing world.