Criticizing a renowned doctor who refused to publicly give a medical diagnosis about someone who isn’t a patient of theirs, and then making that judgement yourself based on youtube hot takes is not professional investigatory work, it’s sloppy and ill-timed.

“It’s not about x, it’s about y” is always suspect, there can be multiple reasons for anything, and in this case the former is racism and the latter is a disease you looked into a little online. Saying “he actually did a lot of harm” is dismissive toward ongoing debates in the academic and black and black academic communities, it’s saying ‘none of that harm was real, but look at this other community I’m also not a part of being harmed’.

To be clear, you are probably right, I mean, it was always an incredible story, I also assumed it was at least slightly bullshit, but I just think investigating whether people are as autistic as they say they are is a bad path to go down. You yourself said that autistic people sometimes feel a need to exaggerate their symptoms in order to get recognition of their disability, and with Arday you might think we have a prime example of that, yet without evidence or credentials, you say he was actually neurotypical, giving us a prime example of why autistic people sometimes do this.