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In the United States, one word keeps coming up in conversations with families and researchers working on autism: the "cliff." It's not just a figure of speech — it's what actually happens to tens of thousands of autistic young people every year, right at the moment they leave high school. Here's how a country that produces the world's reference statistics on autism still manages to leave its own young adults without a safety net.

Kristian Schott learned to speak through opera. He learned to read at 15. And he only discovered he was autistic at age 40, after an entire life already built around the violin. His story doesn't follow any familiar arc about autism — because his began without that word, and only met it much later.

Chaque rentrée de septembre, la même question revient pour des dizaines de milliers de familles : mon enfant autiste aura-t-il une place, un accompagnement, une scolarité qui lui convient vraiment ? Derrière cette question individuelle se cache une réalité nationale faite de progrès réels et de tensions persistantes. Voici ce que disent les chiffres.

For most of us, the number 4 is just a number. For Daniel Tammet, it's a shy, quiet shape — his favorite, he says, because it reminds him of himself. Autistic, synesthetic, and a polyglot, this Englishman broke a European record reciting 22,514 decimal places of π from memory. Here's the story of a mind that perceives the world differently.

For many families, the night is the hardest part of the day — not the day itself. Endless time falling asleep, repeated wake-ups, short nights that exhaust the whole household: sleep difficulties affect a large share of children with severe autism, and they're rarely taken as seriously as they should be. Here's why it happens, and what genuinely helps.

Giving to a charity is an act of trust — in the people who carry the cause, in how the money is used, in the reality of the impact. This article traces the path of your donation and gives you all the legal and tax information you need for 2026.