You don't have to watch the video because I am not going to tell you the answer unless if you watch this YouTube video for my answers.
It's a question whether if Michael Jackson was actually autistic.
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Those sorts of generalisations are incredibly misleading at best.1) Michael Jackson was far too sociable to be considered autistic.
2) He also made eye contact with people.
3) He was far from being physically clumsy.
That would also be an interesting experiment for 60 shrinks to do on a patient they can see in person. I suspect they'd be a lot of variance in diagnosis also, but to a lesser degreeYeah, retro-diagnosis is always going to be spectulation. As an example someone once asked 60 shrinks what they would diagnose Vincent Van Gogh with and got something like 37 different diagnoses.
Those sorts of generalisations are incredibly misleading at best.
I'm ASD2.
I was highly social during my prime years.
I never had any problems with making eye contact.
I've always had superb balance, fine motor control and coordination.
As a side note, I always hated Michael Jackson, even when he was a little kid on the Jackson 5 TV show. I don't know why, I just never liked him.
Yes! It's the idea behind "reliability" of tests. It would be great if we could afford re-testing a person. The alternative, which is what the place I went to does, is to do the diagnosis as a team so more than one person talks to a patient.That would also be an interesting experiment for 60 shrinks to do on a patient they can see in person. I suspect they'd be a lot of variance in diagnosis also, but to a lesser degree
This is also how it was for me. I never saw a doctor or a therapist, I just walked in to the AutismSA building and introduced myself. A couple of very nice ladies chatted to me for a little while, they agreed that I was probably on the spectrum and put my name on the waiting list.The alternative, which is what the place I went to does, is to do the diagnosis as a team so more than one person talks to a patient.