Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true
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The old-fashion kind, with the really sharp points.
Elon's behavior is because he's a nazi. there is no other reason.
Regardless, I’ve spent time with hundreds of people on the autism spectrum. Being a white supremacist nazi ahole isn’t one of the symptoms.
Musk, Zuckerberg & their ilk are not assholes because they were stuffed in lockers. They are assholes because they are assholes.
That can make them pretty desperate to find a group to fit in with, but there is ZERO evidence that they are more violent or more easily radicalized than neurotypical peers.
I cannot attest to the accuracy of Musk’s (and his Mother’s) tale, but the delay in appearing ICD-10 and DSM-4 doesn’t clearly debunk it to me.
The word “autism” carried a heavy stigma well into the ‘90s.
Not saying his story is true, but psychiatry was/is soft and shitty, not a clear hard science./1
Yet the field that perpetuated baseless “refrigerator mom”…🙄
(I have no idea whether #SpaceKaren #PresidentMusk #MuskMelon cited an actual psychological and/or medical diagnosis of supposedly "low support need" autism at that time.)
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/552645-elon-musk-was-not-the-first-snl-host-with-aspergers/
https://childmind.org/blog/dan-aykroyd-says-being-on-the-spectrum-helped-him-make-ghostbusters/
Wild how people want to characterize him as oblivious and master of the Universe simultaneous.
I’ve never cared much for the broad autism as excuse, for anything. :/
It's lazy at *best*.
Don’t want pizza for dinner?
You should be chased into the sea with pitchforks!
However, since he's a billionaire I'm almost 100% certain he's at the very least a sociopath, and he certainly seems, from the things he says and does, to have far right tendencies.
https://www.vox.com/politics/369797/trump-support-class-local-rich-arlie-hochschild
This exactly.
why does everyone try to excuse being a literal fucking nazi on “neurodivergence” does everyone just hate to admit the fact that someone is a nazi or art they just abelist?
https://bsky.app/profile/getastandingdesk.bsky.social/post/3lg7jccj26c2t
We can be tremendously good-hearted people who wish only the best for those around us.
We can also be soulless fuckfaces that want to watch the world burn.
Just like anyone else. 🤷🏼♀️
Elon's not doing that.
...it's not nearly enough.
Maybe the guy who recently endorsed the German AfD party which put images of Anne Frank on pIzza boxes for that "oven fresh" feeling, just might have intended to make a Nazi salute.
Apartheid Clyde isn't digging into esoteric USA patriotic displays.
- difficulty with active listening
- talk over others
- tendency to spiral
- detail oriented to a fault
- difficulty being concise when talking
- easily distracted
Hmm...nope, not seeing Naziism on that list.
He has zero history of Nazi salutes as his “behavior” or “coping” mechanism. Calling BULLSHIT!
The autistic people we know are caring, empathetic, truthful, law-abiding people.
There's no excusing away Elon's fascim, racism, and all his other faults.
Like the endless “I’m AsDHD BPD OCD NB-Trans Furry Enthusiast” BS polluting every social media?
Come on ... Musk has been in front of large crowds before. This is obvious what he was doing, and apologists are weak.
It might, though, impact his lack of filter. I suppose that is the part that is different from the original point? Is that what you mean?
https://bsky.app/profile/getastandingdesk.bsky.social/post/3lg7jccj26c2t