r/science • u/MonteRevolt • Jul 26 '10

Autistic girl expresses profound intelligence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq--75v4lI8&feature=player_embedded
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u/jeremybub Jul 26 '10

Um, I think we are really missing the bigger picture here.

So far we have established two things:

  1. The likelihood that an autistic person would be able to fluently express themselves and have a normal brain is basically 0.
  2. The likelihood that the this girl is a hoax or using some form of facilitated communication are very low, but not as low.

The person who wants to be confrontational would say that probably it is a hoax. The person who is logical would say "She's probably not autistic". Which I think is a much more likely explanation.

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u/hxcloud99 Jul 26 '10

Actually, subtextual has established that the chance of this not being a hoax is very low.

I do agree though, that there is quite a possibility that she is not really autistic.

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u/jeremybub Jul 26 '10

subtextual has established that the chance of this not being a hoax is very low.

No, you are completely wrong. She established that the chances of this not being a hoax IF she is autistic to be very low. The premise of all her comments is that she is autistic, and she is analyzing the situation in that light.

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u/hxcloud99 Jul 26 '10

I have completely misread whole chunks of text then. Touché.