User blog comment:JakePT/Deception Out, Response Abysmal/@comment-4118072-20120129195756/@comment-1691295-20120130013400

Guys, relax.

Dietz, to my knowledge, did not make any claim about Autism being something you 'get over', nor did he present Gillian as getting over it. What has happened is that Dietz has simply ignored her past apparent autism, and hand-waved it away as her being 'unstable'.

What it appears to be is not an ignorant or malicious misunderstanding of Autism, but a retcon or poor continuity due to lazy writing.

I should also point out that one person in the original thread pointed out a passage in Ascension where the possibility is raised that her condition may primarily (though not entirely) be a result of Cerberus drugging, and the possibility of her improving is brought up.