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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I admit this gave me a bit of an eye-roll. This lady went to Harvard on a full ride, writes and advice column for Slate and various publications, has 3 kids and a husband.  And has just self-diagnose herself with autism..

https://nicole.substack.com/p/a-little-bit-autistic-a-little-bit

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Ah, Nicole Cliffe. She is a piece of work (although her parenting advice is usually pretty good).

I used to follow her on Twitter (until she inexplicably blocked me). She is incredibly self-absorbed, loves drama, married a rich guy (which she talks about all the time). She's basically a queen bee type for the digital age.[/quote]

Just coming in here to say basically the same thing. I've enjoyed a lot of her profiles of people, but Nicole Cliffe is mostly just really into Nicole Cliffe. A few years ago she converted to Christianity and wrote a huge article in Christianity Today about it. Not questioning her religion or her self-diagnosis, but whatever label she's identifying with--she's going to publicize the h*ll out of it. [/quote]

An autistic person is self absorbed?? You don't say!

You understand autism means self-ism[/quote]

You think autistic people are dramatic self-promoters?  Yet another reason why we should try to stick to more concrete, clinical definitions and diagnoses when it comes to autism.[/quote]

Unless she was lying about the hyperlexia, sensory issues and social impairment, there's no reason to disbelieve her self diagnosis.  I'm not sure why you do disbelieve it.[/quote]

she's not describing hyperlexia as in an intense interest in letters or words -- she's describing reading quickly and and liking to read, something that many smart kids remember from childhood.  Hyperlexia in autistic kids is often disconnected to comprehension and language use.  [/quote]

and I disbelieve it because she's made zero effort to get herself professionally assessed (that she's mentioned), despite having all the resources at her fingertips to do so.  That, coupled with the dramatic self-reveal, suggests that she's getting secondary gains from claiming autism as an identity, which I think is harmful and annoying. [/quote]
You found someone who provided socially inappropriate personal information in an annoying way and don't think that person might actually have autism, because if she really had autism she'd have the social cognition to know she should get a diagnosis before dramatically announcing it on the Internet.[/quote]

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