Susan Boyle Diagnosed with Aspergers

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BBC - Boyle Admits Aspergers Diagnosis

This doesn't surprise me, but I think it is good that people will read about it and some newspapers in Britain are saying positive things about Autism.

I was please that she chose to come out about her Asperger's. The more NT's see real examples, the less xenophobia (I hope). Britain seems generally ahead of the US regarding ASD matters.

I had a feeling she might have Aspergers I read her book and some of the things that happened to her as a child made me think she did.

I had always assumed she was autistic. Even if it took awhile, I'm glad she came out.

Funny I was just thinking about her the other day and wondering if she had it. I could tell from her interviews. I am glad that she is open about it. I like her music very much and I am so happy for her success.

She is such a talented woman.

I think it's great that she came out with it. Britain seems to be more open about autism than the US and Canada.

I think it's great that she came out with it. Britain seems to be more open about autism than the US and Canada.

That definitely explains why during her breakout performance in 2009, she finished her song and proceeded to just walk offstage before even receiving any feedback from the judges; she was finished with what she came to do, and that was that, no need to hang about letting people cheer for her

What sort of things did you notice in her interviews? Just curious.

she is very talented though always knew there was something different about her thought it was mosaic down syndrome though as she has the features.

Makes sense to me.

Hopefully it will give people something to talk about, other than Adam Lanza.

Wonder if I'll see that on Grandma's "Oh My God" radar this morning...

I had no clue.

Was the Asperger's diagnosis necessary for this understanding? I always thought it was quite obvious that she was neurologically abnormal and therefore prone to odd behavior. I would've assumed based on her appearance alone, based on her characteristic facial dysmorphology.

What I really find interesting is that her "condition" was described as "brain damage", again given the dysmorphology. I can't help but think of how, in certain parts of the world, there is greater shame associated with conditions of a primarily genetic or inborn nature than there is with conditions of a primarily environmental nature. Is there something like that at play here? Susan was born in the early 1960s, at a time when the diagnostic landscape was muddled and bleak. Perhaps there was no oxygen deprivation at all.

At any rate, I don't see how her odd behavior can be understood in terms of Asperger's but not brain damage.

That is soooooo awesome!! !! !! She's my new hero!! !! Love her! Time to download her Christmas album post-haste!! !! !!

Huh. I thought she was Aspie to begin with. And she's just now come out?

Well, chalk up another success for my Aspiedar.

I do hope people buy her music. I don't think she's as popular a singer now as we thought she would be when we first heard her, but I really hope she keeps on singing. I think she'd do great in musicals--but maybe that's just because her breakout song was from Les Miserables. Maybe she's better at other stuff, I dunno. I don't really keep up with popular music...