Morgan saying she is autistic
In her recent podcast imperfect people at around 20 min? when they are talking about labels morgan says she is autistic with adhd. I know she is not the only one doing this but I feel like people don’t understand what autism is any more.
My dad has autism. He only thinks in pictures, having no internal narrator, is a mathematics savant who has won several awards and works at an ivy league, not exaggerating almost exclusively only talks about 3 things (math, piano, politics). He does not make much eye contact, does not enjoy conversation much, he likes to sit in rooms w you in silence. He has not much sense of what is appropriate and if you try to talk to him about something emotional he does not know how so will get up in the middle of it, say “here’s bach” and start playing a piano piece. Side note, I love my dad a lot.
I like morgan a lot and I like her podcast but I have been a long time listener and from what I know about how high school went for her, and from what I can tell about her body language and conversation style there is no way she has any kind of autism even if she was trying to cover it up. People have no idea what autism actually is any more. Being awkward does not mean you have autism, it means you are awkward. I really wish she hadn’t said that because so many people listen and take cues from her.