pat2rome wrote:
I don't understand it at all, and it annoys me. How do you think you can diagnose someone you've never met based on certain things you've "seen"?
That about sums up my feelings - I see these threads, and a lot of them, that cherry-pick the minutest of incidents (often acted incidents, and not even natural behaviour), or postures, or strange phrases or even how people hold their fingers. Sure, everyone has autistic traits and engage in some behaviours that might look autistic sometimes - especially for dramatic value, e.g. stimming in action movies. But I don't see any benefit to discussing them, and I mean this in an "I don't understand" rather than a STFU way. Most people, most of the time (especially slebs) are not autistic - like Callista said, if they are impaired by autistic traits and still famous, then that really would be interesting.
I find Wrong Planet a great way of crowd-sourcing solutions from people with similar problems, so if a famous golfer actually had AS and still managed to wander comfortably amongst crowds because of some method of focusing on his special interest (presumably golf), then I would like to learn what his method is - and maybe even how to use it. But I don't feel any great benefit from gossiping about his supposed status, or me-too identification with how he holds the club in some unusual "autistic way", or socializing with other people interested in sleb gossip.
Sorry if I am very blunt.