Quote:I dislike the practice of making posthumous psych diagnoses of writers I've never met, although I have at least have some professional background in this area
Bravo, and what a coincidence: So do I! I wish that more would follow your lead. ;-)
Thanks, too, for the additional information about CAS in his youth. I dare say that he must often have felt very self-conscious, as well as highly conscious of being so unlike others. In adulthood, that feeling can be a pleasurable one, but rarely is it so in youth.