Posted on 02/19/2019 2:35:43 PM PST by SMGFan
Twenty-one years after she was diagnosed with autism, 24-year-old Haley Moss, who was recently sworn into the Florida Bar, says she doesn’t let others’ expectations define her, instead embracing her strengths and differences. Moss is a published author, a law school graduate and a practicing lawyer, but when she was diagnosed with autism at 3 years old, doctors didn’t think she would accomplish any of those things.
She says the doctors told her parents she would likely never graduate from high school, get a driver’s license or even make a friend.
But Moss was determined to defy the doctors’ low expectations. She credits her parents for instilling in her a positive association with her diagnosis through the mantra “don’t deny the diagnosis, embrace it,” according to the Daily Business Review.
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Plenty of autistic lawyers already, I suspect. Lots.
She might be OK in one of the more tedious and technical areas of the law. Say, taxation, or trust/estate design.
She probably doesn’t have much in the way of people skills, nor much hope of developing them.
Good for her. I think the article is saying she passed the Bar in her first try. That’s a big deal.
I wish her the best, but the marketplace does not guarantee anyone success.
The simple truth, is if I heard that my lawyer was autistic, I would be inclined to chose a lawyer who was not autistic. I hope she is already aware of that hard truth, and will be tough enough, creative enough to find her own niche anyway.
“She probably doesn’t have much in the way of people skills, nor much hope of developing them.”
Given the lack of people skills as well as the inability to develop them, she may find herself fitting in well as an attorney.
My grandson is on the autism spectrum. I’ve dealt with hundreds of lawyers over the years and I’ve never met one I thought was autistic.
It helps that she is an attractive young lady, and dresses very well. She at least looks like a professional.
So that helps with first impressions. I don’t know what she sounds like.
Perhaps the diagnosis was wrong to begin with ?
“432, 432, 432”
Client: “What’s 432?”
Lawyer: “You’ve broken 432 laws, Mrs Clinton”
Listen Judge, All of my underwear comes from K-mart.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the City Council, I'm just autistic ... Your world frightens and confuses me. When I see your tall buildings and flashing neon signs, sometimes I just want to get away as fast as I can, to my place in Martha's Vineyard. ...
When I see a solar eclipse, like the one I went to last year in Hawaii, I think 'Oh no! Is the moon eating the sun?' I don't know. Because I'm a autistic -- that's the way I think.
I’m getting an idea......a show like Matlock, but where the lead character suffers from Tourettes.
Think I should pitch the networks?
By people skills, I don’t mean empathy or sympathy. She may not be able to read people at all.
There are many sociopathic lawyers who have no empathic connection, but can read people, if only to manipulate them.
If she loses a case, she can fall on the floor and scream.
Wasn’t it Einstein that was believed to have been autistic?
Famous Autistic People in History:
interesting names
A lot of lawyers don't.
” Plenty of autistic lawyers already ...”
Exactly, who could tell?
He made hundreds of millions on the subprime crisis because he "saw" it differently.
There was a very lengthy article about him in Vanity Fair. A very interesting read for sure.
Bullshit. Many of those people were dead long before the diagnosis of “autism” was invented. Retroactively diagnosing a dead person with anything is irresponsible and unprofessional. That list comes out of the same mental sewer as list of historic people who were “gay” or similar nonsense.
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