--- title: Five Best: We Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children description: America should stop criminalizing autistic children, the memory of a sports injury might keep you from exercising and more. canonical: https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-15T16:00:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:45.490Z article:section: Ideas og:title: America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**America should stop criminalizing autistic children.**](https://psmag.com/education/america-keeps-criminalizing-autistic-children) By David M. Perry in _Pacific Standard_ **2\.** [**If you’ve ever had a sports injury, that memory might keep you from exercising. Here’s how to beat it.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/when-the-fear-of-getting-hurt-keeps-you-from-exercising.html) By Ian McMahan in the _Science of Us_ **3\.** [**This all-girl engineer team invented a solar-powered tent for people facing homelessness.**](http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/diy-girls-solar-powered-tent-homeless/#Mc5IpfmQOSqz) By Brittany Levine Beckman in _Mashable_ **4\.** [**Ever had a terrible boss? Rest assured, they’re miserable too.**](http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2017/05/abusing-power-hurts-leaders-too-.php) By Alisson Clark at the _University of Florida News_ **5\.** [**This lab-grown liver could be a lifeline for the thousands awaiting a transplant.**](https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/news/release/2017/bioengineered-human-livers) By _Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/"},"headline":"America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children","datePublished":"2017-06-15T16:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:45.490Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Autism","Exercise","Solar Power","productivity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4819833/america-should-stop-criminalizing-autistic-children/","name":"America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children"}}]}] ```