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Day: November 4, 2025

An Autistic Person’s Response to Anthony Hopkins’ Autism and ADHD Remarks

Anthony Hopkins stands in front of a promotional poster for the film The Rite. He wears a gray pinstripe suit with a white dress shirt and raises both hands with open palms, smiling slightly as he poses for photographers. The poster behind him features a close-up of a face with piercing blue eyes and a shadowed cross over the forehead, evoking themes of religion and the supernatural. The setting suggests a movie premiere or press event.

“A Critique of Anthony Hopkins’ Remarks on Autism and ADHD” by Michael Miller. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, one of my favorite actors; Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, The Wolfman) made some strange, if well intentioned comments on the rise in visibility of neurodiverse diagnosis.  Coming after his wife’s suggestion that […]