Christine McGuinness and Paddy McGuinness

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NightBurger said:
I’ve just watched her on ‘Celebrity Masterchef’ where she got plaudits for cooking bacon. Only mentioned autism and her autistic kids about 10 times so far.
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I have upset my sister by complaining about her doing this. She thinks that I am taking the piss out of someone having a disability, when I am actually taking the piss about how she had to shoehorn it into every single conversation.

I didn't really know much about her until I saw her on The Pilgrimage. Everyone else was telling interesting stories, discussing their relationship to spiritually or discussing the places they visited. She related practically every single conversation to being autistic, having 3 children or both.

She is doing exactly the same on masterchef. She clearly has nothing else interesting going on in her life, as she can literally only talk about herself and/or her kids.

What really pisses me off, is that she is often talking about how difficult it is having autism, and everyone around her smiles and nods and agrees it is so hard and she overcome such odds etc....

..... and she will be on the same show as someone else who lives with a disability and doesn't mention it every 5 seconds. She was on morning live the other day, and the next item up was a report by a journalist who uses a wheelchair ( sorry I can't recall his name). There is a blind contestant on masterchef, and Gregg has a son with complex needs who is none verbal. But clearly, Christine made bacon so she has it hardest of all.

I want to be clear, I understand being disabled is not a competition over who had it worse. I just wish she would talk about something else. Or even used her privileged position to try and advocate for all people with ASD,

eg ' I am really lucky because I can afford to send my children to a private school and employ staff to help around the home. I want all parents of children with ASD to have the same for their children, so I will be supporting a campaign for the government to do XYZ....'
 
She only goes on these programmes because of the money & media exposure £££££££

i don’t understand why Masterchef contacted her agent when she publicly tells everyone about her issues with food. I like to see people on that programme who have a passion for food and creativity. At least she was covered up for once -it must have irritated her having to wear something that didn’t expose her stuck on breasts and at least she was the first contestant to be eliminated - wonder what tv show she’ll pop up on next though? I’ve seen her a few times and she LOVES attention.
 
cantstandinfluencers said:
She only goes on these programmes because of the money & media exposure £££££££

i don’t understand why Masterchef contacted her agent when she publicly tells everyone about her issues with food. I like to see people on that programme who have a passion for food and creativity. At least she was covered up for once -it must have irritated her having to wear something that didn’t expose her stuck on breasts and at least she was the first contestant to be eliminated - wonder what tv show she’ll pop up on next though? I’ve seen her a few times and she LOVES attention.
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I don't think she does the autistic community any favours at all. It's a shame she's flouting her brand of autism as a meal ticket as she has nothing else to offer other than Page 3 style enhancement.
 
neroli said:
I would be interested to know who diagnosed her autism and how long it took to make that diagnosis.
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magsxxxx said:
You know what I dont know if it's been said before but I dont think she is autistic. I think she obviously knows a lot about it coz of her kids & her meeting other ppl with it. But I think it's just an attention thing she deffo lies about having social anxiety. So wouldn't suprise me if her autism was made up
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I think given her kids are autistic, they are likely to have inherited it from someone because it tends to be genetic. It ain't Paddy, so that leaves Christine. I'm autistic myself (properly diagnosed) and a lot of things in her documentaries about it rang true. However ... what I will say is that she does go out rather a lot, on nights out / events, and seems to be away from home a lot, which would be my idea of hell as an autistic person. We are all different, however, but she does seem to "cope" or "mask" rather better than many. Well, except when she mentions it ad nauseum, then there's no attempt to mask lol. I'd be ashamed to go on about my disability if someone was sitting there in a wheelchair or something, because it just doesn't compare does it, unless someone has the very severe autism where they need 24 hour care.
 
neroli said:
Hasn't she got dyspraxia as well? Preparing meals and planning may be a problem?
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That's where I differ from a lot of people with my opinion on these things and I'd probably be lynched - to me, I don't think everything related should be separate diagnosis (unless it's your only diagnosis) when someone is neurodivergent. With me, I feel it's all part of the autism. I'm a clumsy cow with poor coordination. I once walked into a branch of a Christmas tree and scratched my cornea. I have to be careful even walking as I've fallen so many times over the years from tripping over my own feet or not paying attention to paving sticking out or whatever, and balance being off. But I wouldn't go round saying I have the 2 things or seek a piece of paper saying I've both. There are also a lot of overlapping symptoms with ADHD. I think one diagnosis is enough. I'm not greedy lol. This is a view that will be vehemently disagreed with by many though, and that's OK. It just seems that some people want to collect as many diagnoses as possible.
 
LByrne74 said:
That's where I differ from a lot of people with my opinion on these things and I'd probably be lynched - to me, I don't think everything related should be separate diagnosis (unless it's your only diagnosis) when someone is neurodivergent. With me, I feel it's all part of the autism. I'm a clumsy cow with poor coordination. I once walked into a branch of a Christmas tree and scratched my cornea. I have to be careful even walking as I've fallen so many times over the years from tripping over my own feet or not paying attention to paving sticking out or whatever, and balance being off. But I wouldn't go round saying I have the 2 things or seek a piece of paper saying I've both. There are also a lot of overlapping symptoms with ADHD. I think one diagnosis is enough. I'm not greedy lol. This is a view that will be vehemently disagreed with by many though, and that's OK. It just seems that some people want to collect as many diagnoses as possible.
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I'm autistic and clumsy as well, but I just call it being clumsy. Everyone understands and it doesn't really need any further label.

For someone who's always crapping on about their sensory issues with pretty much everything, she apparently doesn't have a problem with plastic surgery or having someone shove needles in her lips.
 
LByrne74 said:
That's where I differ from a lot of people with my opinion on these things and I'd probably be lynched - to me, I don't think everything related should be separate diagnosis (unless it's your only diagnosis) when someone is neurodivergent. With me, I feel it's all part of the autism. I'm a clumsy cow with poor coordination. I once walked into a branch of a Christmas tree and scratched my cornea. I have to be careful even walking as I've fallen so many times over the years from tripping over my own feet or not paying attention to paving sticking out or whatever, and balance being off. But I wouldn't go round saying I have the 2 things or seek a piece of paper saying I've both. There are also a lot of overlapping symptoms with ADHD. I think one diagnosis is enough. I'm not greedy lol. This is a view that will be vehemently disagreed with by many though, and that's OK. It just seems that some people want to collect as many diagnoses as possible.
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I agree. My son is dyspraxic and I always consider it as part of his autism. He'd certainly "qualify" for ADHD but what's the point when its so over-diagnosed now for normal difficulties in people who aren't neurodivergent...Just wanting a "diagnosis".
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CarmenGhia said:
I'm autistic and clumsy as well, but I just call it being clumsy. Everyone understands and it doesn't really need any further label.

For someone who's always crapping on about their sensory issues with pretty much everything, she apparently doesn't have a problem with plastic surgery or having someone shove needles in her lips.
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It's farcical, isn't it? She belittles the torment some able autistic people suffer.
 
If you mention it too much you run the risk of alienating people and having them wish you'd shut up about it, thus losing any sympathy or positive attention you may have hoped to gain, and I feel she is nearing that stage and needs to be careful. Esp as, you know, she can walk and talk and has the use of her hands etc, and many people with far worse disabilities don't talk about theirs as much.
 
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