Emer Lucey Emer Lucey is a historian of medicine and disability and a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University.

A Little Spectrum-y | What the Autism Diagnosis Says About You

Emer Lucey

Online, someone is wondering if Will Smith is on the spectrum. Jennifer Lawrence? Low-key autistic. So is Matthew McConaughey, though he may be a savant. Thomas Pynchon seems to know a lot about town planning: distinctly spectrum-y. Anna Wintour’s limited diet, love of indoor sunglasses, and exacting standards have Asperger’s vibes. Other things that have been declared autistic-adjacent on Twitter: having an Aquarius moon, dudes in high school who shout...