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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was Beth supposed to be autistic?  
I thought this was a fantastic portrayal of someone with autism without making it the defining aspect of the character's life/personality.  [/quote]

There was something definitely off/different about her. She had no idea what to do with the doll the high school chess coach gave her and couldn't relate to the Apple Pi girls at all. Maybe it was due to her rough start in life or maybe something else like autism.[/quote]

Uh. She didn’t want the doll because that didn’t interest her. Same with the vapid HS girls.

She was precocious, not autistic. 
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I must have missed the part where that was specifically stated. Can you remind me when it was said or when we hear a diagnosis? [/quote]

Episode 3, 18:34

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Try again. I remember Miss Deardorff talking about her talent for chess but don't think she used a specific word for it other than "gifted child" in Episode 1 with the high school coach. There are a lot of other clues in the series about Beth that point to something more than just precocity. Either way its all speculation. In the 1960s that wouldn't have been a common diagnosis for a girl. This was the era of "refrigerator mothers". But given what we know today, we might call it something else.[/quote]

What “clues”?  :roll:

She didn’t want to play with a doll and thought the girls were vapid. Nothing at all “off” about that. 
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Ok. I'm not going to argue with you about it. Agree to disagree.[/quote]

So no other clues? Got it. 
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If you insist... here's a discussion about this very thing. And again, you can see it differently. I don't know why you're getting so defensive.

https://valneil.com/2020/10/30/accidentally-autistic-the-queens-gambit/[/quote]

All of her behavior falls squarely in the realm of typical for a bright girl in that situation. No need to “diagnose” her FFS. 
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I am the first poster to ask about autism.  I am the parent of an autistic teenager, and I recognized some of the same behaviors in Beth that I see in my son.  
I wasn’t sure if this was intentional on the part of the producers of the show or not.  But I really enjoyed this positive and empathetic portrayal of someone who doesn’t fit in.

I am not sure why you are so up in arms about this.  Do you find it offensive to consider that people with autism can still have success?  Or that it’s ok to have a main character with this diagnosis without making it a disability or defining her life?  [/quote]

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