OK so there is a better angle to look at all this, there really is:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357868645_Edgar_All...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357868645_Edgar_All...
It's one thing for a biographical analysis to look at the person's real life experiences and relationships.
It's another thing entirely when you start conflating the characters in the fiction with the author's own character...
There isn't one because you can dislike a person and/or their works for literally any reason you want.
Is there a label for insisting that people put aside their feelings and engage with something because you have deemed their reason for not doing so invalid?
I only implied that implied psychological traits of a fictional character are not evidence of the same psychological traits in the author. It's merely evidence that the author is capable of observing or imagining such traits in others.
It is called reading with context. Famous examples being, writing "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" song and then their career ends with long term sentence over underage abuse. Or making movies that center old men in relationships with young women again and again and then ending up in host of scandals over similar.
And lots of affirmations of that text aren't unsustained or don't make sense.
Terribly bad angle.
On his website he says that in 2010 reached "...a milestone of diagnosing over 5,000 individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, showcasing his extensive clinical expertise and commitment to patient care.".
Even if I do the math from the beginning of his research in the 70s, that's a diagnose every two or three days non stop including weekends. He's either a) counting all the diagnoses done on the clinics he owns (I've seen referrals in Reddit), b) Counting his quick diagnoses that he makes from a biography he reads in the morning, c) really doing 3 or 4 diagnoses a week, while doing his research, giving interviews, appearing in Hitler documentaries [1] and writing books.
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0: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Fitzgerald-6
1: https://professormichaelfitzgerald.eu/695-2/Maybe he spent an afternoon browsing HN?
Seriously, I agree, remote diagnosis of psychological conditions is wildly unprofessional, and in this case the schtick this guy is working is a huge red flag. Nobody should take him seriously.
I laughed at that, I probably shouldn't have.
From what I can tell, autism is so still woefully undiagnosed within Ireland, so that's maybe why he's so keen to expand that figure. (Scotland too, by the way... Unless you're a child here, they make you jump through umpteen hoops before they even consider assessing you.)
I'm sure it's a great consolation to many autistic people that Lord Haw Haw, Goering, Hitler and Eichmann are all declared by him to be on the spectrum.
p.s. He's probably right about Al Capone having Antisocial Personality Disorder.
This post was an absolute joy to read.