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The girl who pretended to be 3 boys

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There was a TV programme recently about a girl called Gemma who pretended to be 3 boys. She seduced her two friends as they believed she was a boy, and she created 3 different personas on facebook and successfully deceived her friends and the police. She allegedly was worried that one of her friends would stop being friends with her and would go off with her other friend, leaving Gemma with no friends. By being a boy, Gemma could ensnare the two girls by preventing them from leaving her, as they fell in love with Gemma.

Gemma was eventually imprisoned for both fraud and sexual assault. She was accused of 'lies upon lies upon lies'. She was also diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum and as having a mild learning disability . A personality disorder was ruled out.

What I find baffling is how she could have been diagnosed with autism when people with ASC are supposed to find it so difficult to lie, manipulate and deceive people? Theory of mind difficulties would suggest an inability in these areas, yet Gemma was manipulative and lived a lie. Your thoughts please

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  • As longman said this is tricky, it's also controverisal , because of its ability to link autism with other issues like psychopathy or narcisism

    but a person with autism, and or psychopathy and or narcisism can easily manipulate people, soem of  those affected have whats called 'superficial charm' where they seem so nice, friendly etc, but in reality are only showing people what they want to see so they can get what they want

    I heard about that story, but didn't take much notice of it, and I didn't know she was disagnosed with autism, but yes it's very possible that an autistic can have other issues that mean they can lie and manipulate

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  • As longman said this is tricky, it's also controverisal , because of its ability to link autism with other issues like psychopathy or narcisism

    but a person with autism, and or psychopathy and or narcisism can easily manipulate people, soem of  those affected have whats called 'superficial charm' where they seem so nice, friendly etc, but in reality are only showing people what they want to see so they can get what they want

    I heard about that story, but didn't take much notice of it, and I didn't know she was disagnosed with autism, but yes it's very possible that an autistic can have other issues that mean they can lie and manipulate

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