I am not saying this to put any blame on Grunge (the maker of this video); I understand that the usual slanderous descriptions of Maria Eleonora are still popular especially on the English-speaking Internet and are believed by many, and some past descriptions I have made of her on this blog (from before 2022 or 2023) have shown that I used to believe them too. The research I have done into autism, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder as well as into Maria Eleonora's own history and contemporary accounts of her and her own letters (and my own personal experience with the agonising emotional pains autistic people like myself often experience (I am not bipolar and do not have BPD but can understand and strongly empathise with those who do have it)) make it seem to me the most likely explanation for her personality and behaviour. I plan on explaining this combination and theory more in depth in the future.
I was very heartened to find so many likes on my comment and I hope it's a sign of increasing understanding and sympathy for this woman, wife and mother who has been so mischaracterised and maligned for almost 400 years.
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