To think that Ann Widdecombe...

[Tobythecat]

Is clearly on the autism spectrum? As someone with ASD, I see the same autistic traits in her as myself; general social awkwardness, lack of relationships/lives alone, likes peace and quiet, doesn't like touch/talking about emotions/feelings, very rigid beliefs, sensory issues (she wore headphones at the after show as she didn't like the noise).

I don’t think anyone can diagnose anyone else over the tv. Unless you know her personally and are qualified so to do.

Why do you care and why does it matter?

My gran would've also wanted earphones. Generational. Same as with Anns other traits.
Dont bd so quick to jump and attach labels!

Anyway didn’t she have a female friend that lived with her at a time?

I met her a couple of years ago, she wasn't at all socially awkward, I found her to be funny and kind, my daughter was with me at the time and she was lovely with her.

No, YABU.

There are many women of that generation who can't be doing with loud music and touchy-feely nonsense.

Ann Widdicombe came across as being able to get along with everyone else with warmth and humour while sticking to her principles and beliefs. I think she's about as far from socially awkward as you can get.

DH knows someone who was at Oxford with her and who said she was great fun.

Yabu to think that Ann Widdicome is anything but a victorian prude.

Bollocks to the generational/age thing. I don't know anyone in their 70s who needs smelling salts at the sound of a Lady Gaga song/bare chest.

She is an absolute knob.

I was (honestly!) once stuck in a lift with Germaine Greer and I would choose AW over

Why bring Germaine Greer into it 😂

I'm on the spectrum and often thought Anne is too. It's the way she talks too. Women are less likely to be diagnosed, as find it easier to put on a front, but after a while of socialising, get home burned out.
I also think Thatcher was on the spectrum, with not thinking of the social side to her policies, destroying whole communities, for her ideology to leave us an economy closely linked with USA banks encouraging greed and debt. But then suppose that must mean most other Tories are on the spectrum to make so many suffer, every time our economy crashes after the USA.