From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday.
I'm Manveen Rana.
We've seen the diagnoses of autism shoot up in recent years,
from 700,000 3 years ago to around 1.1 million today.
And that's just in England.
It's led to a bit of a backlash, with some suggesting the condition is being overdiagnosed.
"Not so," says Dr. Mary Doherty.
Autistic herself, she launched Autistic Doctors International 7 years ago,
and she says she knows why the numbers are up, and they're not being inflated.
Feature writer at The Times, Andrew Billen, went to meet her.
Here he is reading his piece from the paper.
When she entertained me there earlier this month with coffee and a home-baked cake,
Dame Uta Frith's bookish home in North London did not seem easily mistaken for a hornets' nest.
Frith, who is 85 and is one of the country's pioneers of autism research,
was in the news for something she had said before,
but never with such clarity as in her new essay for the journal Psychological Medicine.
She claimed that far too many people were being diagnosed, or, as she would say, misdiagnosed, as autistic.
A ninefold increase in the 20 years since 1998, according to one study.
The autistic spectrum, a theoretical concept Frith helped to construct, had, she said, collapsed to the point of diagnostic meaninglessness.
To illustrate this, she told me that Chris Packham,