This still aligns to what I said no? He himself is expressing doubt with his own reasoning why. Either way it doesn't matter as the assumption shouldn't be his former friend is autistic by default.
The poster is claiming without any evidence other than the "friend" was "self-diagnosed", which doesn't tell us if the "friend" was right, or not, and adding that they knew the diagnosis was wrong because of other claimed attributes.
I'm honestly shocked at the response to me pointing that out.
If you want to go round making judgements on peoples' mental health without any qualification to do so, and post that judgement on social media (which Hacker News is) then I will call you out for that, every time I notice.
People come to these comments claiming to be all about science, all about serious thinking that's not found on other social media, but then this trash gets posted and people calling it out get attacked.
