Thoughts on Rudy Simone?

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Every time I see the name Rudy Simone, I think...that girl from the Cosby Show?? lol

What's funny is it happens every time, no matter how many times I correct myself.

My post below disappeared as well.

There are likely significant brain/cognition/behavior differences between females vs. males with autism, just as there are between females vs. males without autism, but the aspergirls fad driven by Rudy Simone is not going to lead to a good understanding of girls and women with autism for diagnosis or other purposes. Instead, it leads some normal females to believe that they have autism based on a female aspergers list that covers almost none of the core traits of aspergers or autism. Then, they self-diagnose themselves, speak vaguely about how they discovered they had autism (this phrase of discovering that they had autism seems really popular on wp, it is quite vague about whether a person is diagnosed or not) or how they were "diagnosed", and continue to misrepresent autism like Rudy Simone has in her autistic era that has now ended. It is so strange to me that she would have a problem with others claiming to be on the spectrum when she herself did the same, and her list of female traits lacks the hallmarks of autism and could describe many normal people.

And if they do decide to see a professional and they don't believe they have it, they of course come online and complain they know more on autism and are more up to date than them... Basically they take Rudy's word over someone with years in education and experience with autism. Some random woman on the internet who, turns out, was self-diagnosed but now believes she's cured it? Crazy hypochondriac. And she's causing people with high education levels, successful jobs, kids and an active social life to start questioning themselves because they have the traits on her site. They have no issues in life and are happy but they have some of those traits.

I wonder how much more BS is out there

You can't believe everything you read about autism and AS.

I have been on this site since 2013 and nearly everyday I see a post from someone who went to a professional and was told things like you made eye contact, you cant be autistic, you had a intelligent conversation with me you are not autistic etc and in those cases either 1. The client did know more then the professional 2. There the are massive amount of attention seeking Autistic Wannabees. When a celebrity or in Rudy's case a person whom became a role model retract it provides validation for the many who believe number 2 and IMHO unfairly poses credibility problems for group 1

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I've been here since 2013 too

And chances are they weren't seeing a specialist.

Well not a specialist in how Autism presents in their demographic anyhow. These specialists are rare when you consider as of 2010 in the USA only 2% of research funding was dedicated to the needs of adults. Now I am sure it is somewhat better but the basic problem remains. People at WP are pretty clued in about the lack of knowledge among professionals and even some specialists but in took a lot of bad experiences to get to that understanding. Of course these experiences will in many cases cause these people to not have nearly the faith in the validity of professional diagnosis that critics of self diagnosis have.

Popularized bogus traits exist for a range of disorders, not just autism. Oh, you NEED your pencils in a line? You must have OCD! Jesus christ it intoxicates me.