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Emily Jane Willingham is clearly NOT qualified to make such a "diagnosis". Her degrees are in endocrinology and urology, and she is professionally known for her research into the red-eared slider turtle. As a hobby, she blogs about autism, as well as genetically modified food controversies - she is on the "diet causes autism" bandwagon, and has argued that the autism epidemic may, in fact, just be the result of diagnostic substitution and increased awareness of the disorder. The only book she contributed to on the subject of autism required input from no less than three other "experts" on the subject, whose sole claim to autism "expertise" was giving birth to autistic children.
So, unless she has (1) found a causal link between hormones and autism, and (2) analysed a sample of Emily Jane Brontë's own urine, it seems unlikely that Ms. Willingham has any qualifications whatsoever to make an informed diagnosis of someone who has been dead since 1948.
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Ms. Willingham did not retrodiagnose Bronte but criticized the biographer and people in general for diagnosing and speculating that people are Autistic based on stereotypes. She pointed out that most people speculating about others bieng autistic are do not have nearly enough information for an informed opinion.
The article in question is an opinion column not a peer reviewed journal article. Opinion columnists need not have proffessional credentials. In that way it is similar to Wrong Planet posts. You state often that most who self diagnose themselves as autistic are pousers. As far as I know you do not have proffesional credentials to say that, nor have you cited any peer reviewed studies to back up your claim.
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04 Sep 2016, 7:14 pm
