You already know the kitchen-table version: the same person can be autistic and have ADHD.

What “Virtual Autism” Research Actually Says About Screens and Autism-Like Changes

The August 2026 CMS Medicaid ABA toolkit is guidance for states. It does not mandate ABA, endorse ABA as the only treatment, or cut EPSDT. The official name is the State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Toolkit. CMS posted it on August 4, 2026. This paper stays inside that document and the numbers CMS published with it. It is not a ranking of therapies. It is not a clinic ad. Spend and caseload are two different lines Med

A 2026 sample of 412 autistic adults found 31.3 percent fully employed, 28.6 percent underemployed, and 40.1 percent unemployed. Reviews still cite 50 to 85 percent unemployed or underemployed. Those are two different papers. Do not mash them into one U.S. rate. This is not a cure story. It is not a job-program pitch. It is what the 2026 studies actually counted. Two papers. Keep them apart. The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders integrative review looked across em

CDC ADDM identified autism in 1 in 31 eight-year-olds across 16 sites in 2022. That is 32.2 children per 1,000. The range was 9.7 per 1,000 in Laredo, Texas (about 1 in 103) to 53.1 in California (about 1 in 19). This is not a U.S. census. The CDC autism 2025 community report is a 2022 surveillance year, published April 17, 2025. Sixteen communities. Not every county. Not a door-to-door count of the country. What “identified” means A child met the ADDM case definition if reco

People call it a social skill when an autistic adult makes the room comfortable. Camouflaging research measures something quieter: the strategies used to hide or compensate for autistic traits, and the cost of doing that work in public. This is Autism Digest’s first research brief. It stays inside published numbers. It does not offer a cure, a training program, or a new way to diagnose anyone. What masking and camouflaging are In 2017, Laura Hull and colleagues asked 92 autis