ANew York (UPI)— Jackie Kennedy Onassis considers herself a very shy person and because of her shyness some people misconstrue her diffidence for arrogance.
“The truth of the matter is that I am a very shy person,” Mrs. Onassis said in a copyrighted interview published today in Parade magazine. “People take my diffidence for arrogance and my withdrawal from publicity as a sign of my supposedly looking down on the rest of mankind.”
ON THE TOPIC of reporters, she said she did not dislike them. “It's just that I get afraid of them when they come at me in a crowd. I don't like crowds because I don't like impersonal masses. They remind me of swarms of locusts.”
([Sounds like some traits of common to Autism Spectrum, like Bobby Fischer. Though never diagnosed on the Autism that I'm aware of, Jackie Onassis describes a familiar feeling, “ I don't like …impersonal masses. They remind me of swarms of locusts.” — and being on the Autism Spectrum, like Bobby, dealing with a lifetime of Anxiety, I know from personal experience, it can lead to panic attacks… severe “overstimulation”.])
Jackie Says Shyness Taken For Arrogance 16 Jul 1972, Sun The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) Newspapers.com
