The fall of Elizabeth Holmes serves as the ultimate true-crime drama.

Seeing the deception unravel satisfies our craving for fairness and accountability.

We stay captivated because we want to identify future con-artists before they fool us again.

Without an official clinical diagnosis, any psychiatric assessment remains speculative.

Everyone is talking about the new documentary, You Can See Everything. There’s no escaping it. Many armchair psychologists, with or without successful online platforms, are weighing in on what Elizabeth Holmes is truly suffering from. Or, the film often asks, is there no underlying condition at all?

Most prominently, social media has taken to the debate over whether Holmes is on the autism spectrum. It seems evident in the film that perhaps Holmes, her partner, Billy Evans, or maybe even the filmmakers were inferring this as a way to explain some of her unethical behavior and her “neurodivergent” way of communicating her thoughts. In other ways, the film exposes her propensity for lying with no subtlety. Or is she telling the truth?

Viewers scratch their heads. Was the bewilderment a deliberate narrative hoax, or just a story of a fraudster who got exposed? For now, the court of public opinion seems to agree that, if anything, Elizabeth Holmes has undeniable personality disorder traits; this is not a new revelation.

Psychiatric Assessments of Holmes Remain Speculative

However, without an official clinical diagnosis, which we may never get, any psychiatric assessment remains purely speculative. We don’t know.

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