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Oh for chrissake what have I missed that an Autism-related word is trending.
Oh. Oh no. This is really actually bad.
Fucking Elon Musk.
Now listen there wasn& #39;t a lot of joy for me in Asperger Syndrome anyway because I don& #39;t think it& #39;s a useful distinction as a dx where it still exists. https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/1367331416233693185">https://twitter.com/EbThen/st...
But like... all these non-Autistics are praising him. And saying how important blah blah blah blah blah...
And here I am in a contortion of cringe like "Nonononono this is not happening."
And here I am in a contortion of cringe like "Nonononono this is not happening."
If he says he& #39;s Autistic, fine, he& #39;s Autistic, but he& #39;s still a human trash bag, so.
We don& #39;t support all Autistics just because we share a neurotype. Some Autistics do shitty things.
We don& #39;t support all Autistics just because we share a neurotype. Some Autistics do shitty things.
Also just because Elon Musk says he& #39;s Autistic doesn& #39;t mean you get to armchair dx all the other tech bajillionaires as Autistic too.
Also Elon Musk being a trash employer is not because he& #39;s Autistic.
Also Elon Musk being a trash employer is not because he& #39;s Autistic.
Also I don& #39;t really see Elon Musk hanging out in Autistic community or using his money to lift his fellow Autistics out of poverty so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I& #39;m proposing we just choose not to claim him.
We can accept that he& #39;s also Autistic but we don& #39;t have to enthusiastically welcome him as part of us.
We can accept that he& #39;s also Autistic but we don& #39;t have to enthusiastically welcome him as part of us.
Also I still dunno if maybe it was just a joke based on all the people armchair dx& #39;ing him. I suppose we& #39;ll have to wait for some sort of in-depth profile.
I didn& #39;t see the clip but someone who did weighed in with more context. https://twitter.com/Gerrund_ing/status/1391245584867020804">https://twitter.com/Gerrund_i...
Someone else had more helpful context in the form of a transcript. And it ends ugly. https://twitter.com/bi_rhetorics/status/1391245801742127106">https://twitter.com/bi_rhetor...
What a fucking disaster. And April is over! I call foul.
It& #39;s just we expect this kind of crap from April. Now it& #39;s May and we& #39;re supposed to get shit for being mentally ill.
I know how this calendar works.
I know how this calendar works.
Anyway if you picked up on it the way some folks replying to this thread did, Musk basically used a diagnosis of "Aspergers" as an excuse for his harmful behavior.
Which brings us—right on schedule—to Simon Baron-Cohen (MHFIAV).
Which brings us—right on schedule—to Simon Baron-Cohen (MHFIAV).
