I said it based on interacting with him online, and on interacting with someone else online who is a diagnosed autistic. Some similarities struck me.
Obviously I'm not making a diagnosis, although I recognize that making such a statement on the basis of some forum-ing and only one other encounter can come off as pretty insensitive, so I'm sorry if that caused offence.
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Date: 2009-10-20 09:20 am (UTC)Obviously I'm not making a diagnosis, although I recognize that making such a statement on the basis of some forum-ing and only one other encounter can come off as pretty insensitive, so I'm sorry if that caused offence.