Samantha Brick on the Autism Spectrum?

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I'm afraid I'm the wrong person to ask about men. I find my own sex strange and can't relate to them on many levels.

No, not at all. I don't think she is on the spectrum. She just comes across as typically English to me - like an average middle-class woman of her age.

This whole furore around Samantha Brick's proclamations of her beauty, and other women's envy, just show how insane average people are. It's a non-story, no one should even care, yet in typical secondary-school-fashion people revert back into the sneering, melodramatic adolescents they are.

The tragedy of all of this is that no one has realized how poorly this reflects on all of us as a human species.

How truly imbecilic all of this hubbub is.

But self-reflection isn't the strong-point of many humans out there.

The Mail only cares about a good headline. Of course they knew there would be a reaction though I don't doubt even they were surprised at how big the story became. They will not care about the people or the consequences though.

They will happily throw people to the wolves. How else did they become the worlds biggest online newspaper?

Having said all that it is pretty hard to "write an article in good faith" like hers and come out of it looking good.

Another example of "bully" being misused. I don't think she bullied anyone with that article.

But I still feel sorry for her. I saw nothing wrong with her article, I saw no indication of arrogance. All I wondered is if I am so pretty, then why don't I get the same treatment she gets? Am I just average looking and were men being "nice" when they say I am pretty? Maybe that is why women got so upset? Because it made them feel average looking than pretty so they took it the wrong way?

Also from reading the comments at Babycenter about this and reading some comments to the article, people were saying it could be her attitude or how she acts about her beauty because they mentioned they are pretty too or know people who are and they don't get treated the way she does. Plus some don't think she is that pretty and some say they know people who are prettier than her and don't get treated that way.

But at least some of the commenters noticed she may have something going on with her because they said she needed professional help.

I don't feel sorry for her at all. This is just a clever way to stir people up and get a reaction. That is what Daily Mail is all about. For one thing, I don't believe women hated her. She's too sweet to garner that reaction. The ones I feel sorry for are the people who responded negatively and let their emotions get the better of them. That's just what Daily expected and wanted. Now they can pit woman against woman and say "see! told ya!" It's crap journalism.

I hate that kind of journalism.

I don't like it either.

So she actually wrote it to make people mad and get a reaction out of them?

I obviously didn't put that very clearly. Both Salon.com and the Jezebel article it refers to are not accusing Samantha of bullying; they are accusing the Daily Mail of doing so. They appear to think, and I agree with them, that the Daily Mail set Samantha up, it threw her to the wolves, it used her as bait, it knew that she would get lots of online abuse, they wanted a willing, and naive victim for some spectacular online bullying, in which she got savaged by thousands.

And my belief is that only the most naive, perhaps aspie/autie, person would have allowed themselves to be set up this way. I think that Samantha may have believed that the Daily Mail were seriously interested in her "theories".


Either she is genuinely sweet, and therefore not just stirring people up to get a reaction, or she is not sweet at all, and is stirring people up to get a reaction! You can't have her being genuinely sweet and also stirring people up. :lol ...

So ... if she is genuinely sweet then she is telling the truth about women disliking her and which case the question is WHY? I am suggesting that it is because she is on the autism spectrum, doesn't know how to small talk, seems snooty/snobby/superior when timed out/spacing-out in social situation, is inadvertently acting out girly-seduction behaviour with men in general which puts women's backs up, etc etc etc.

This is precisely why I think that it is relevant to discuss whether or not she is on the spectrum; so many autist women so often experience exactly this sort of reaction, in which our motivations seem suspect, in which our behaviour, perfectly innocent, none the less elicits anger/resentment/hostility, etc. Because we seem so relatively normal, so apparently socially skilful, so ostensibly "able" to attract/seduce etc, the fact that very often/most of the time we are actually only just managing to stay afloat with our limited reportoire of mimicry/roleplay, and that it is not always the most adapted or appropriate or that it exhausts us so that we suddenly look stern/severe or bored as our social skills evaporate, and this seriously jars, making us look like liars, fakes, etc or as if we were only patronising/condescending.
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It's a very good copy of a stereotype, ( though I think she has overdone it somewhat, to the point of pastiche :lol Did you see the pictures in the articles, the clothes she wears, etc? ) ...

But did you notice in the video, ( whether with the sound off or on ), how she stares off into the distance at regular intervals and her whole face goes slack with the effort of following the social interactions, and thinking about her argument at the same time? Do you see this sort of "time out" in most women when they talk?
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She could truly think that is why she gets such treatment is because of her beauty but that may not be the case actually as people in the comments have said. She could come off as arrogant or put people off with how she acts and she assumes it's her beauty but I don't know for sure. People are interpreting that as her thinking she is better than others and thinking less of other women just because she thinks they aren't pretty as her so thus the angry comments she is getting. Just an example of human stupidity I see online when someone writes something and people take it the wrong way or over react.

Okay I read this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... right.html


So she knew what she was doing and knew what she had coming but she was not expecting it to be that ugly. Wow people calling her and emailing her also.

Im not a casting director.
So what do I know about rating someone's attractiveness?

But Id be more than happy to buy her a drink.

And she didnt invent the idea that women resent other women for being attractive.


So there must be something to that notion.

I don't think anybody disputes that that can and does happen but SB explains every bad or negative experience with other women in this manner. Her reasoning allows for no other explanation.

Unfortunately this notion has now been reinforced by:

a) Those people who do like to stick the knife in.
b) Her apparent refusal to accept that there are people who honestly don't consider her beautiful. In her mind and in others (I needn't say whom) those in this category are liars and must belong in (a).

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