Is this girl on the spectrum?

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Other of her videos discuss depression and bi-polar. As a female it is possible Autism was missed.

If she is on the spectrum its extremely high functioning.

If i had to say if she was or not- i don't think so. One thing that stands out is her appearance. She seems young and seems to have a good grip on personal hygiene which most autistic girls lack. She seems vain about her appearance too, autistic girls CAN be vain but its more common to see them preoccupied with things outside of themselves.While she has a short attention span she is able to bring herself back to her main topic. She mentions that she was "shy" as a young kid and was pressured into socializing and then goes onto mention that she was popular in middle school. It isn't atypical to see a shy toddler but it is uncommon to see a popular person on the spectrum, while autistic people can make friends, its still highly unlikely that they will be able to impress a large number of their peers to the point of popularity. The friends that autistics make are usually outcasts anyways. There is nothing awkward about the way she talks, and she doesn't seem to have any interests outside of herself. This is just 1 video of a teenage girl who mentions absolutely no autistic traits or anything to be evaluated psychiatrically. A specialist in ASD wouldn't even be able to make a statement. She just seems like a typical teen girl.

Saying shes autistic is a huge stretch. Sometimes a shy girl is just a shy girl. I see that a lot on this website, people always linking everything to autism or saying "maybe they are autistic and was just misdiagnosed with bipolar"

Sometimes a tree really is a tree. Sometimes bipolar really is bipolar, sometimes an introvert is just an inteovert,

I couldn't watch the whole thing as after a minute or two I got a bit irritated by her, but, in my laywoman Spidey-sense, this girl does not strike me as being on the autism spectrum, not even high functioning. She seems like a regular teenage girl to me.

No one on this website is qualified to give a diagnosis.

HOWEVER, in my opinion, the girl in the video seems relatively "normal".

Some girls on the spectrum can be mistook for a non-Aspie.

You shouldn't judge if a girl is an Aspie or not based on her hygiene and appearance. Some Aspie girls do like to focus on their appearance.
And you shouldn't judge if a girl is Aspie or not based on how she speaks. I spoke like that when I was that age.

The only thing that makes me doubt if she's Aspie, is being popular in middle school.

Heather Kizmich who competed on the America's top model show is an Aspie, as is The AnMish an Aspie Vlogger who modeled for a time.

Carly Fleishmen a much more "severe" autistic had advocated for an autisic person gracing the cover of a beauty magazine, Kiley Lyall is an autistic person who was the cover person for Women's Running Magazine earlier this year.

Daryl Hannah a well known autistic actress has the beauty thing together

The above is not saying that executive functioning deficits, autistic related stress, sensory sensitivities to certain clothing is not going to hamper or prevent a lot of autistic people from looking as good as they can. Videos are often a preformence, the person might be able to get it together just for the videos before needing a few days downtime. What I am saying is do not stereotype or as the cliche goes do not judge a book by it's cover.

No, on the porch.

It's safe to say IT'S A GIVEN that these are just opinions and that nobody here is qualified to diagnose. It's unfair to judge this girl but just going by instinct it's not unfair to GIVE THE OPINION that she doesn't strike me as anything but a regular girl.

Wow, we've usually got tons of people overly quick to declare that someone isn't on the spectrum, now we've got a thread of people telling those people off even when some of us aren't the same people as usual.

She might SEEM like a "normal" kid.

As somebody previously pointed out, she's on camera, and she's putting on a show.

In order to gauge someone's Spectrum Status, in the absence of obvious signs, one must observe a person constantly over at least a few days. See how she reacts to adverse things. See how she reacts to social overtures. Stuff like that.

I can admit all of that is true, yes. Perhaps I'm too quick to assume. I'm usually the person overly assuming the opposite, while everyone else is crying "that person is not autistic." In this case I feel like she's not even though OF COURSE none of us can know based on one clip. None of this is scientific.

However, I also can't help but wonder, where are all the WP cynics NOW, who regularly post things like "See, the definition of the spectrum has been 'stretched to wide' to include just anyone." ?

One of those is on this thread but I expected more to come out of the woodwork and pooh pooh this girl being autistic. That's normally the WP culture n'est pas? [cynical smiley]

@ the_phoenix -- me too. All of those same things. I even was a publicly performing musician/singer for many many years, although I didn't actually enjoy being onstage.

When I was a child I did -- a teacher who was concerned about how clearly withdrawn and selectively mute I was forced me to start being one of the regular roles in the part of the school assembly in which four speakers read little passages for the rest of the entire school in a formal and rehearsed presentation once a week. I was terrified but discovered that because it was all very controlled and scripted, I actually enjoyed playing my part and actually speaking my little lines.

And I feel like I "act" every day of my life to present a "normal" front.

Yet everyone's carefully and compassionately supporting that this girl may be on the spectrum, while even here on WP I and others like me get more or less, covertly or overtly, accused by any other name of being a faker because I SEEM high functioning in my posts? And I probably come across as not all that different in real life as this girl comes across in this video, maybe (that's for people who know me to say, though).

For crying out loud.

@BirdinFlight: And you'll notice that I didn't give an opinion as to whether the girl in the OP is on the spectrum. It's because I don't believe Internet strangers ought to be deciding such things.

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