• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    “This is a man with Aspergers exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd,” the journalist said, calling Musk “a friend to the Jews.”

    Also, Asperger’s is no longer a medical term and there is no indication that Elon has ever actually been evaluated. Autism is not an excuse to throw a Nazi salute, for fuck’s sake!

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      3 hours ago

      I actually did speculate on neurodiversity yesterday (as a neurodiverse person myself) and I can tell you it was because of shock over the whole thing. I’m not going to speculate.

      edit: fixed some spelling

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      Autist here, while I can be awkward and accidentally do or say offensive things not meaning them…

      A full on fucking Hitler salute isn’t even something we can do on accident.

      Closest I’ve gotten was while getting excited in public shouting “WHITE POWER!”

      Context: I was playing a Power Rangers game on my phone, and got Tommy Oliver’s White Ranger, my voice went out before I could say “Ranger”… I am very bad at controlling the volume of my voice. Seriously, sometimes I’ll say something and it sounds like I’m whispering, but I"m yelling and vice versa. I have no idea what’s up with that, people often have to tell me if I’m yelling or not.

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      13 hours ago

      On Twitter, no less — a sycophant whose opinion is a net negative.