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st3akkn1fe t1_j29tvs1 wrote

Reply to comment by yoaver in Which "based on a true story" films butchered the true story the worst? by yoaver

But isn't that like Steve Jobs though? Or Spielberg or whatever? I mean he can be outgoing and still be autistic. He had all the obsessive traits as far as I can see.

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yoaver OP t1_j29uava wrote

There is no record of him being autistic, and many records of him being very social, which is uncommon for autistic people.

So there is no reason to assume he was autistic, let alone depict him as such in a movie.

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st3akkn1fe t1_j29vo5d wrote

Yeah but autism and asperger's syndrome wasn't diagnosed until the mid 40s. The chances of Turing getting diagnosed or described as either is pretty slim.

I'm not well versed in the history of the guy but going off my FIL who is I assumed he was on the spectrum.

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yoaver OP t1_j29yks4 wrote

So you assume an historical person you never met has autism becsuse for some reason he reminds you of your father in law wglhich you think may be on the spectrum?

You need to get out more.

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st3akkn1fe t1_j29zeww wrote

No, you misread what I said. I said my FIL who has read a lot about Bletchley Park and worked with GCHQ seems to think that the movie didn't do a good job of showing how neuro diverse the code breakers were.

I said he seems to think that they were all pretty autistic. I then explained that Turing wouldn't have been diagnosed as the diagnosis was only coined in the 1940s and that it was a new field.

I would expect that if he was born today he would have been diagnosed early in life. Now, I don't know of this is the case or not but my FIL whoni saw the movie with and who is well educated on the subject matter seems to think so.

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Mech-Noir t1_j29vpki wrote

What the fuck are you talking about or "whatever". Spielberg Does Not Have Asperger Syndrome neither does Steve Jobs. What the fuck.

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st3akkn1fe t1_j29w1f1 wrote

>neither does Steve Jobs.

A quick Google tells you that he probably did.

I'm not going to Google Spielburg but I worked for a national leader in educating children on the spectrum and they used both people as examples.

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Mech-Noir t1_j2a5xpt wrote

Well, then they're fools who are wrong. Sorry you're too lazy to type it into google. First result: Spielberg Does Not Have Asperger Syndrome.Mar 29, 2010

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st3akkn1fe t1_j2a8s1o wrote

I literally just googled it and there are lots of pages saying he probably is or at least has traits of people on the spectrum...

What do you think about Steve Jobs? I notice you didn't mention him.

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Mech-Noir t1_j2adz30 wrote

Steve Jobs was also not diagnosed with Asperger’s you weirdo. The self diagnosing dead people is weird and you have quite literally missed the entire point of this conversation.

Spielberg had an NPR article with false information published about him… literally top result on Google.

https://www.indiewire.com/2010/03/spielberg-does-not-have-aspergers-syndrome-238881/amp/

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st3akkn1fe t1_j2alfjh wrote

You can't self diagnose someone else. A self diagnosis is a self diagnosis.

You're missing the point. I'll happily say that I was incorrect about Spielburg and that this was just a case of fake news. However, Alan Turing is widely regarded as being on the spectrum and so is Jobs. There are lots of reasons why they weren't diagnosed as such but the fact that you're trying to cancel that part of them out is odd to me.

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