Of all the things people have suggested she has, autism is probably the furthest from being 'nonsense' actually. A few people on here who have autistic relatives/children/work with people with autism have said they see it in her. She doesn't tick all the boxes for half the things she self-diagnoses either - that's literally why we're always talking about them. I would be really happy for her to seek autism assessments, it's a challenging and hard life when you're autistic and undiagnosed. We also don't like to call autism 'mental disorder', it's a type of neurodiversity.
This is all redundant because she would never seek out autism assessments as it's not glamorous/something that would attract her loads of attention e.g. you don't need surgery or a stay in hospital for it.
I know disagreeing on gossip forums is kind of frown upon sometimes. It can be a bit hypocritical to say it isn’t cool to speculate about mental health but it’s fine to call someone names because of their weight, I mean... idk.
I hope I’ll never want to talk about this again or have the free time to do so but here’s the reason of my comment, from the experience of someone that works in mental health and has worked with autistic males and females.
My comment was more about the article linked that mentions 5 characteristics:
1
. Intense focus on a person/band/celebrity
This might me the one that applies the most for Gabby but in my experience this manifests in other disorders/pathologies/issues and also they tend to not drift from thing to thing so often like Gabby does, she seems to just obsessed on the surface and forget about things (scrapbooking, painting, signing).
2.
Anxiety and depression
Seemed to be about her weight problems mainly. Didn’t she say she was perfectly happy until age 10 or something?
3.
Disliking uncomfortable clothes
I don’t think this would be a choice, she would wear many layers of compression clothing in summer just to look slimmer and she’s never mention anything about clothing being uncomfortable from what I remember? Idk, haven’t followed her too closely in a couple years
4.
Lack of eye contact
Eh, doesn’t seem like it with friends/coworkers /family. From my experience people weren’t even able to make eye contact with their best friend.
5.
Less severe symptoms than men.
True but doesn’t really make a difference in this.
Apologies but English isn’t my main language and I’m not too familiar with how mental health and diagnosis (and everything related to it) works in the UK. As I said previously she shows more traits of a couple things that I won’t mention and seems capable to recognise she is wrong but just won’t accept it, she can work on the core of the issues and actually overcome them. I really think a lot of her behaviour is a choice and is something she can easily (easier than an autistic person) change, she is just too comfortable being where she is because her mom is there to baby her.