The Rhetoric around Musk and Autism is Getting on my Nerves

Can we please stop using the words autism and aspergers as descriptors? Can we please stop using those words as a simile for bad behavior? Being autistic or having a neuro developmental condition does not lead to people doing the sig heil. Having Asperger's does not make you an asshole that will happily spout fascist ideology on an international stage. Having autism doesn't remove your ability to show remorse. A multi billionaire one of the richest men in the world wouldn't get there by being so incapable of reading body language and speech and the room that they could do what's Elon is doing, let alone enjoy it.

Elon is acting in such a way isn't because he's going for aspergers, it's because he's a low life, far right populist figure who cares not for anyone but his own popularity. Few things piss me off more than the bigotry with low expectations. So many people have shown in the last few days that they have no expectations of autistic people. (Or are willing to be ableist in an attempt to defend the indefensible). Very disappointing.