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@mcdutchie @actuallyautistic couldn’t he be autistic AND terrible? Never heard of any diagnosis that could only apply to saints.

@eirias If someone evil wanted to deliberately discredit Autism, and especially self-diagnosed autism, wouldn't they claim it on National television? @mcdutchie @actuallyautistic

@Tooden @eirias @mcdutchie @actuallyautistic
On principle, I don't like questioning someone who claims to be autistic. Even someone like him, who may well end up doing us a great deal of harm and who, to be honest, I do have my doubts about But, what strikes me is that he is just incredible emotionally stunted. He seems to be stuck in awkward teenager mode. Just look at the way he likes to dress up in weird costumes and his immature and flawed fixation with space travel. Not to mention that he seems incapable of taking responsibility for anything, not least his own children.

@pathfinder @Tooden @eirias @actuallyautistic

The principle is sound. I don't like questioning someone who claims to be autistic either.

But in this particular case, the claim is so obviously spurious and so harmful, that it is a much greater harm *not* to question it.

Because #Musk now single-handedly defines the public impression of what it is like to have an #autistic person in charge. And that reflects on all of us, for decades to come.

That is why we must oppose this with all our might.

@mcdutchie @Tooden @eirias @actuallyautistic
I agree with you. However, the damage has been largely done, even though I can't help noticing that he seems to have stopped claiming it since he didn't get the reaction he was hoping for, whatever the fuck that was supposed to be.

@pathfinder The trouble is, that many people still believe it, because it suits them to do so. I am afraid that he will grab the claim with both hands, if it is brought up again...if only to flog some kind of cure. @mcdutchie @eirias @actuallyautistic

@Tooden @mcdutchie @eirias @actuallyautistic
More than likely and especially if he feels it benefits him in some way. In so many ways, very like the eternal teenager he seems to be stuck in, it's all about the attention.

@pathfinder Narcissism begins early...andI never goes away. The few I have known personally, always struck me as being cases of arrested development. @mcdutchie @eirias @actuallyautistic

@pathfinder He'd be an Autism denier, methinks. @mcdutchie @eirias @actuallyautistic

@Tooden @mcdutchie @eirias @actuallyautistic
True. As he obviously found out and we all know, there's little benefit to claiming that you are autistic and the potential for a great deal of harm. It hardly fits the profile.