The Chase’s Anne Hegerty admits her autism has stopped her finding love

EXCLUSIVE: ‘My longest relationship was four months’: The Chase’s Anne Hegerty, 62, admits her autism has stopped her finding love as she learns her emotional intelligence is at 1% By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 08:51 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 08:51 GMT, 28 January 2021 The Chase star Anne Hegerty has shed light … Read more

The Chase’s Anne Hegerty sheds light on her autism and insists it makes her a better quizzer

EXCLUSIVE: The Chase’s Anne Hegerty sheds light on her autism and insists it makes her a better quizzer as she embarks on a Chasers road trip for new series By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 15:56 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 15:56 GMT, 20 January 2021 Anne Hegerty has opened up about her autism … Read more

Sam Bailey tells of her guilt at disciplining her son after failing to realise he had autism

Sam Bailey has revealed she ‘feels sick’ at the thought of disciplining her son after failing to realise he had autism. The X Factor winner’s son Tommy, 11, was diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia last year after she and husband Craig Pearson got him assessed after noticing he was ‘different’ to other children his age.  And in a … Read more

X Factor winner Sam Bailey on son’s autism diagnosis

X Factor winner Sam Bailey has admitted she feels ‘sick to her stomach’ that she didn’t pick up the signs of her son’s autism sooner.  The singer, 43, who won the tenth series of reality show in 2013, learned of her son Tommy’s condition in July, after noticing signs in his behaviour around four years … Read more

Big Brother star Nicole Franzel loses sponsorship from Olay after mocking contestant with autism

Big Brother’s Nicole Franzel has lost an Olay endorsement after she was seen with others mocking Ian Terry, a houseguest who is on the autism spectrum. Franzel, 28, was fired by sponsors including Olay after she was seen on a live feed with castmates Memphis Garrett, Christmas Abbott, Dani Briones making fun of Terry and … Read more

Big Brother houseguests under fire for mocking fellow contestant with autism

Big Brother: All-Stars contestants have come under fire for mocking a fellow houseguest with autism. Memphis Garrett, Christmas Abbott, Dani Briones, and Nicole Franzel were seen on live feeds laughing and making fun of Ian Terry, a houseguest on the autism spectrum, and his self-soothing technique of rocking back and forth.  Memphis compared Ian to … Read more

Flu vaccine during pregnancy has NO link to a baby’s risk of developing autism, study confirms

Getting the flu jab while pregnant doesn’t increase the baby’s risk of being diagnosed with autism later on, another study has found. Researchers in Sweden compared autism diagnoses among seven-year-old children whose mothers had a swine flu vaccine during pregnancy and those whose did not. Of almost 70,000 children, 39,700 had been exposed to the … Read more

Autism is twice as common in children whose mothers used cannabis in pregnancy

Pregnant women who smoke cannabis almost double the risk of their baby being born autistic, warns a new study. In the largest ever study of its kind, researchers found that children whose mothers reported using cannabis during pregnancy were at greater risk of autism.  The incidence of autism was four per 1,000 person-years among children … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Death rates of people with autism have DOUBLED

The NHS has launched an ‘urgent’ review after figures showed death rates of people with learning disabilities and autism have doubled during the Covid-19 crisis.  The dramatic U-turn comes after it had previously reassured the deaths of people in this group had been ‘within expected range’.  Analysis of data by two separate organisations showed that in … Read more

Death rates of people with learning disabilities and autism have DOUBLED during Covid-19 crisis 

The NHS has launched an ‘urgent’ review after figures showed death rates of people with learning disabilities and autism have doubled during the Covid-19 crisis.  The dramatic U-turn comes after it had previously reassured the deaths of people in this group had been ‘within expected range’.  Analysis of data by two separate organisations showed that in … Read more