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sherlock - an autistic Best Man's speech?

longman

Is it just my lack of a sense of humour, but was the painful prolonged best man's speech simply characterisation of a contemporary Sherlock Holmes figure, or given the current imputation he is meant to portray autism, a rather inappropriate charicature?

Does anyone still identify with the new Sherlock?

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  • There's a big debate about the current television adaptation of Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbach) at the moment, with psychologists and psychiatrists contributing (revealing a lot about their strange understanding of autism!).

    One pyschiatrist is saying that there are a lot of adults being irresponsibly diagnosed because they have a few eccentricities, which bear no relation to the real condition.

    NAS became part of this on 6th December, a NAS Ambassador (Robyn Stewart) in the Telegraph, arguing that the episode where Sherlock's brother arrives in New York, his response is apparently Aspergers.

    Conan Doyle, whether or not he believed in faries, never imagined Sherlock as he is now being portrayed.

    But I think it is dangerous to try to attach this characterisation of Sherlock to aspergers or autism, because it might be harmful to our best interests.

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  • There's a big debate about the current television adaptation of Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbach) at the moment, with psychologists and psychiatrists contributing (revealing a lot about their strange understanding of autism!).

    One pyschiatrist is saying that there are a lot of adults being irresponsibly diagnosed because they have a few eccentricities, which bear no relation to the real condition.

    NAS became part of this on 6th December, a NAS Ambassador (Robyn Stewart) in the Telegraph, arguing that the episode where Sherlock's brother arrives in New York, his response is apparently Aspergers.

    Conan Doyle, whether or not he believed in faries, never imagined Sherlock as he is now being portrayed.

    But I think it is dangerous to try to attach this characterisation of Sherlock to aspergers or autism, because it might be harmful to our best interests.

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