Sweet Fanny Adams
I got nuthin’. Nada. Zilch. Though I’m putting it down to my lofty standards rather than, say, a lack of mojo or imagination.
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I’ve known more than a few folks with classic Asperger’s syndrome. It’s rare, very disabling, almost a ‘spot diagnosis’ (they talk and move in a very characteristic way), and patients can barely talk to two people, let alone a room full. I wouldn’t diagnose someone I hadn’t met, but I’m not convinced. The original description (translated from German) is not too hard to find. Dr Asperger himself was quite an odd fish, apparently.
My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis. I think she’s just a typical spoiled brat teenage girl enjoying playing queen bee.
My suspicion as well. I get the sense that she’s adopted a personality of being odd. Especially after seeing some video of/from her parents. Such an odd coincidence that her mother is supposedly an opera singer and her father (and his father as well) an actor.
Sweet Fanny Adams: The expression is likely derived from a 19th C murder in Alton, Hampshire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams
The poor girl is related to a friend of mine.
My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis.
This is one disability where a social constructionist approach could do a lot more good than a born-that-way attitude.
Social skills really are socially constructed by access to mentors and peer groups and thousands of hours of eye contact and learning when to take your turn or shut up.
And social norms really can determine whether somebody who’s a slow learner of social skills is able to integrate or not. For example, formal conventions of politeness, which are out of fashion now for being undiverse and unspontaneous and ungenuine, used to provide the awkward squad with icebreakers and means of faking it until they make it.
“My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis.”
I used to work with young people with ‘special needs’. In 15 years I had the grand total of three clients with Asperger’s. I can well imagine that if I returned to the field now there would be many many more. I remember when dyslexia became fashionable. It spread like wildfire.
In the Mother of Parliaments today a member of the government referred to the phrase “When did you last beat your wife?” Some female opposition MP with the IQ of lichen rose to berate him for making light of domestic violence. He wept, you know, did Jesus.
1. The phrase “the Mother of Parliaments”, when originally used by John Bright in a surcharge in Brum, was preceded by the words “England is”; using it to refer to Westminster is a tad off target.
2. Said female opposition MP has used the phrase herself on Twitter, in response to a teacher who espouses traditional teaching methods vociferously. The tweet was in response to a one in which said teacher asked why she supported a principle; the tweet he was replying to had since
apparently been deleted, so it is impossible to say whether she was using our appropriately. https://mobile.twitter.com/oldandrewuk/status/748205060153303040?s=19
3. Various groups are apparently up in arms that Mr Cox “used a joke about domestic violence”. This is, of course, arrant nonsense; the whole point of the expression is that no man would want to be thought a wife beater, former or current, and the question is therefore impossibly loaded. That domestic violence is seen more seriously now than when the phrase was coined only gives it more rhetorical force.