>>63964Good find. Her acquaintances have stated that in college, she started doing huge amounts of psychedelic drugs and had a psychotic episode. I don't doubt that her mental health severely deteriorated at that time. However, she seems to be recovered now. Her writing is logical and even eloquent, and she doesn't seem to have any psychotic thought patterns (well.. besides pretending to be a low-functioning autistic). Definitely not what you'd expect from someone with a catastrophic case of schizophrenia.
It's definitely not autism - adult onset autism is simply not a thing. It is a developmental disorder by definition.
The impression I've gotten from reading her blog and her friends' accounts is something like this:
Amanda starts out as an intelligent and developmentally normal young woman. She has some emotional issues and is a bit socially awkward. In college she starts doing way too much acid and shrooms. She has a psychotic episode, gets committed and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She finds out that she enjoys the attention she gets for being "sick". When her psychosis is under control, she begins faking various illnesses online (this is documented on the blogspot). She takes an interest in a low functioning autistic girl (also documented) and begins to pretend to have autism herself, even though her claims make no fucking sense. She's getting off on pity and her own helplessness.
Sorry for the long post, I just find this freak interesting. It's all so fucked up.