„Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the overall functioning of a personi n all spheres of his life. Recently, there has been an increase in the prevalence of people from this spectrum, which is attributed to being more efficient diagnosticts, which in turn results ina n increase in the number od newly diagnosed cases. The aim of this work is to study in more detail the appearance of autism, its forms, characteristicts, diagnosis and more important aspects in the life od each individual, such as education, housing and employment. Autism is a condition that entails many questions which are still not clarified. Ehe etiology of this disorder itself is so complex that even after so many years od research, there is still no single agreement on te causative agent and there is no single tool for its determination. The paper emphasizes the marginalization od autistic people in almost all spheres od their lives, as well as the shortcomings od both legislative framework and early detection and diagnosis.“