P!nk has autism!

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Personal code: I think it's wrong to speculate about anyone who's still alive.
If someone is willing to publicly acknowledge it, like Dan Aykroyd or Daryl Hannah,
that's fine. But if s/he doesn't want to be a poster child for Autism, that's his/her business.
The speculation could ruin a career or a life.

To be fair, though, P!nk is known to at least co-write a lot of songs.
I'm not a P!nk fan by a long shot, but I've got a good deal more respect for her than I have for a lot of other pop singers out there, for this very reason, and for having enough dignity to even cram some emotion and message into her work, even though it sometimes gets a bit heavy-handed.
That said, I don't think she writes all her lyrics (I know she hasn't always; she's performed pieces by Linda Perry and others), but she's definitely a songwriter in her own right, at the very least to enough of an extent that a lot of the lyrics she sings are derived from her own ideas and feelings, whether she's had help piecing the words together or not.
Just setting things straight. In the case of P!nk, say what you will about her music, but it'd be unfair to say that her songs have nothing to do with who she is.
Of course, I'm playing devil's advocate here, since I'm of the opinion that attempting to diagnose P!nk is between her and her doctor, and the OP made a poor choice in naming this thread "P!nk has autism!" as if it was a fact or even well-founded speculation.

I only looked at the first two links. She ISN'T ugly, and DOES have talent. As for being autistic? I don't see it. OH, she certainly COULD be, but you couldn't tell it from here.

1) I like Pink. She seems to be intelligent and have well-developed BS radar.

2) Sometimes you really can diagnose by song lyrics. (For example, when Kurt Cobain killed himself my only surprise was that he had been able to hang on that long!) And Gary Puckett or whoever wrote his song lyrics had a major thing about underage girls.

(double post.)

I think your key word is "sometimes" (which really should be changed to "rarely.")

if she does i have newfound respect for her.

She was also an exotic dancer before she got her break...

Please remove this post, for your own sake. go troll somewhere else.

I dont see anything that indicates as with her, sure she is different and all that. But being different doesnt point towards autism. She could have all kinds of disorders OR NONE. I prefer pink far more then then the average pop artist.

Whats funny is that playing the underdog/outcast is seen in movies too, if not always. The main character fights back against large groups etc because people really identify with that. Even though they are not outcasts themselves this is what seems to get most emotions going. When you look at reality though the underdog or outcast doesnt get that kind of sympathy and respect from the large crowd. Dont know what to call it though sympathizing with a fictional underdog but when it comes to real life underdogs no sympathy there. It might just have something to do with the amount of information you get about a person in movies its all there to connect but in real life you hardly get any words out of outcasts or underdogs that explain their life story in a positive light.

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On this criteria Lady Gaga could be classified as autistic.
My educated guess is no to both.