“It is Marcella who keeps defending her position that her great list of famous people are really autistic.”
It is not my list - it is a list made up by some professionals who examined the life/habits/behavior of these individuals.
You are not reading what I said - I wouldn’t label ANY of those people as having Asperger’s OR being autistic. I said that - no person gets a mental label if they are living their life successfully. I believe they were highly intelligent and had their own way of using that intelligence, living their way, and it was different than most other people living their lives. People who are “different” tend to get labels when they shouldn’t as they are just beautifully different.
I am a great skeptic of so-called professionals when they wax on about subjects which they cannot prove. Just like I don’t believe Al Gore (the great climate expert) on global warming, there ae a lot of psychologists/psychiatrists who are just full of baloney.
A lot of my family lived in Missouri several generations ago, so I guess that I just inherited that “show me” attitude! It’s in the genes.
The first semester I was at Berkeley, they taught me to never (well, hardly ever) to use words like “always”, “never”, etc. It’s part of my nature now.
In fact, a friend sent me an email today that pictured many famous people (people who would be considered experts and professionals in their fields) making stupid statements about inventions of the future. Such as Thomas Edison saying, “Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody would use it — ever.”