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[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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I agree with the PP.  She seemed unable to relate to most people; very wooden, walled off, and often humorless.  I definitely was under the impression that she might be on the spectrum in some capacity.[/quote]

I think the trauma of having your mother attempt to murder-suicide you aged 9 might have something to do with it.  :roll: [/quote]

It was probably PTSA.  She also witnessed a lot in the early days from addiction to abuse.[/quote]

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