The Worrying Politicization of Autism.

[@imautisticnowwhat]

Know the facts and stay informed on breaking news by subscribing through my link ground.news/nowwhat to get 50% off their unlimited access Vantage plan this month. Big sarcastic/joking tone tags for the intro again on this one! I’ve tried my best to put tone tags on screen throughout the video. Because there as a lot of sarcasm flying around! Apologies if I’ve missed any. If you missed my latest video, I discuss certain celebrities who are frequently cited as autistic (Messi, Taylor Swift?)...but have actually never been open about a diagnosis. Some of them even appear on numerous listicles (particularly on ABA websites??!!) and the only evidence is 'they look a bit socially awkward'! I'd love to know your thoughts!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnWuY6Cfid-HiqM Do you think autistic people are more likely to be left-leaning? I’d usually do a community poll, but I think that’d be too biased from my audience 😅 If you need something light and fun after this one, I reacted to some lovely autistic Halloween TikToks here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmauZ5KpjbKoZ6c And if you want to play Fall Guys with us next month (it’ll likely be Sunday the 17th of November at 7.30pm GMT), you can join the discord server by signing up to any tier on my Patreon (you’ll also access the exclusive content on Patreon - new exclusive videos coming this week!): www.patreon.com/imautisticnowwhat I’m super bad at Fall Guys, so don’t worry if you haven’t played before! It’s free to download too! 💛🐌 P.S. Boxes will still be the background for the next couple of weeks 😂📦 Thank you for bearing with me!

[@bungwohlio]

No witch hat, no good. Sorry babe.

[@cziegle3794]

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[@Claire_Wow]

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[@ChangEAreYouWatching2]

I'm not sure if I'm left wing for saying this, but I think ableism has been normalized, and people don't really get any consequences

[@jasonmeade955]

Personally, I don't really think autistic people tend to lean left or right. The overwhelming majority of autistic people I know (and have known over the past few decades) tend to be either entirely apolitical or libertarian/libertarian leaning (I consider myself an anti-establishment civil libertarian for the most part). Edit to add: For the sake of more context, I don't really engage with people online all that much. I have been part of several autistic adult social groups who meet in person in 3 different states; one in a large city, one that was mostly people from a suburb, and one in a rural area.

[@naomistarlight6178]

"They do it for the attention" Me, being physically revolted by the idea of getting attention: 😨

[@samuelthecamel]

Doing it for attention? What attention? 😂

[@ghoulthebraineater]

Right? Attention is the last thing I want. I feel like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet most of the time. "Don't you fucking look at me!"

[@edwardlulofs444]

Absolutely! I seek anonymity and dream of being a hermit.

[@Me-hf4ii]

If you don’t want attention, you shouldn’t fill your socials with buzz words designed to bring attention to your page. You shouldn’t dress, act and speak in a way that screams “look at me! I’m different.” Now - as an autistic person, I realize that many autistics don’t realize that is what they are doing (I certainly didn’t when I was younger). But that IS what they/we are doing, especially with the way the algorithm works, and how media and politics are hyper focused on that algorithm and so every thing that gets “trending” ends up being blasted in everyone’s face everywhere they go. Also, pride parades and drag queen story hour ARE for attention. Outright. Obviously. And even a socially impaired severely autistic person can see that if they take a second to reflect on what those things are and how they work in the wider public. Our exterior persona is not for us. It’s about conveying who we are/what we are about to others, without the needs for words. Your exterior SPEAKS, even if your mouth doesn’t. That is the reality of living as a member of a social species. (I’m not saying you’re doing all the things I listed here. But since that IS what this post is about - I felt it was important to say that 100% anyone who is loading up their socials with left wing (or right wing) buzz words, then had unnatural colored hair and is breaking the English language with neopronouns, and DEMANDING others use those or face wrath, they ARE asking for attention. If you want to blend in and be left alone, that is not how you do it.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

​@@ghoulthebraineater"A candy colored clown they call the sandman, tiptoes to my room every night, just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper: go to sleep everything is alright."🎶 🎵 🎸🎤

[@Rammspieler]

"There are no autistic people on the Right". 4Chan's /pol/ board: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@heatherrae901]

Haha!

[@LilChuunosuke]

I have DEFINITELY seen 4chan posts by openly autistic men saying horrible things about women! They love to congregate there

[@MonsterTaming420]

I always thought of autistic people as more right-wing centrist generally, definitely because of 4Chan and the autistic guys I was/am friends with now I'm thinking of it haha.

[@babybirdhome]

Speaking only for myself, when I was young, I tended to be a lot more right-wing. I didn’t see the purpose for things like politeness and social niceties - they seemed like extraneous and useless filler language and that everyone would be better served by just saying what you needed or wanted outright so everyone could get things done quicker. It wasn’t until I was much older - more in my 30s or 40s that I started to re-examine my youthful assumptions and found that there was actually a lot of good reasons for the things I saw as inefficient or wasteful (human beings can’t escape human nature or human psychology, so while at a purely logical level, social niceties and politeness serve no purpose, in the real world where you’re dealing with actual human beings of diverse backgrounds, they do serve a lot of utility). Then sometime in my mid-30s to mid-40s, my tendency to want to deeply understand things and know how they actually work drove me to dig deeper into the things that my historical sources of political information didn’t provide me any depth on, and I found that in many cases, I was just being misled or flat out lied to - when I checked primary sources for many of the claims being made, I found that the claims that my right-wing sources were feeding me did not match actual reality at all. They were nearly always lying to me about their left-wing opponents and what they were doing, and were being misleading on what their own party were doing on top of that. That drove me to dig even deeper, where I found that even historically, the data didn’t support their claims of success, and that so many of the things they’d told me in the past that I’d simply believed because they sounded correct and made sense when they said them were a result of some extreme cherry-picking and misrepresentation of data. As I kept encountering more and more of that, I could no longer support it even for things that I still had some agreement on, because I thought it would be better for those things to be supported by more honest and trustworthy people, or to compromise on less preferable solutions that were at least more honest than to support actual malevolent liars who - if they were liying about such simple, basic things to make themselves look better - probably couldn’t be trusted to do any of the things that I did support, either. Now I basically just won’t support anyone in the right-wing parties in my country anymore, because the whole of the parties’ leadership seems to be impossibly compromised and stolen from the people they were created to serve. They need to be rebuilt from the ground up, and with more protections against the same thing happening to them again for me to vote for any of our right-leaning parties anymore. That ship has sailed.

[@saturnthemirrorball]

@@MonsterTaming420 I feel like autistic men tend to be right leaning & autistic women seem to be left leaning. Of course, this isn’t set in stone (my brother is autistic and leftist) but from my observations this seems to be the case.

[@xjagwitchx]

"Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is one of the most misunderstood phrases in the English language. It's an old mining term. If someone fell down a shaft and they couldn't be reached, it was said they'd need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. In short "We can't reach you, you're on your own." It was a death sentence because it COULDN'T be done.

[@silverrraven5349]

that's interesting, i didn't know it was a mining term. i knew it was originally used to refer to the impossible, but i thought it was conceived as an analogy for economic inequality

[@IshtarNike]

​@@silverrraven5349probably a bit of both tbh. Different localities with different local hazards would use it differently. I heard it was used to refer to someone who got stuck in a bog and left for dead. He came back a day later. When they asked him how he got out he said, "I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps." And everyone thought he was full of shit because it's impossible. And it is.

[@Pfhorrest]

Reminds me of how terribly people misunderstand the idiom "don't let a few bad apples spoil the bunch", taking it to mean "only a few of this group are bad, don't judge the whole group by them", when the actual message of the idiom is "apple rot is contagious, don't leave a few bad apples in with all the good ones because then the whole bunch will go bad, GET RID OF THE BAD APPLES NOW."

[@RowenaSnow-px3jg]

Very true. There was a cartoon too, about someone so foolish that he thought he could step over a fence by pulling up on his bootstraps. It worked when his boots were empty, so why shouldn't it work when he was IN his boots? As Bugs Bunny would say , "What a nimrod. "

[@noctoi]

Yes!! It makes me so grumpy, because it's seen as a moral failing and excuse for ostracism now, to be unable to cheerfully do the impossible! It's so nonsensical it should be funny, but it's such a cold and callous phrase that is now just as horrible, but considered the 'reasonable' way to talk about people who are struggling.

[@意地悪ちゃん]

My brother and I are both autistic and he went down the far right pipeline as a teen. Having a “strong sense of justice” means a lot of different things lol

[@IshtarNike]

It's very true. The far right absolutely frame things in terms of huge injustices against white people. If you accept their evidence as true (it isn't but kids don't know) then you'll likely come down on their side.

[@xoPotatoTreexo]

Yep, I have to be careful about how I get my information on certain topics because I'm easily swayed by emotive language, and I got quite conservative as a teen because all of my news was coming from Murdoch media sources. It wasn't until I entered more leftwing spaces on the internet that I realised how my "strong sense of justice" could be pointed in some unjust directions if I wasn't aware of the bias in the the information I was being presented

[@pemanilnoob]

As a young kid I watched all the Leafy clones and genuinely thought without question “oh yeah people dancing online to music? Yeah that’s cringe” “oh furries should all die they’re all disgusting and stuff” Like, imagine if I didn’t stop, eughhhhhh I’m so glad I got tired of them and realized they were incredibly wrong

[@flamingshortsflamingshorts1633]

The term Hive refers to those humans that control society and all groups. These groups appear to be competing but they are really unified in maintaining the illusion. Their success comes from the nature of being able to lie and keep secrets without a feeling of guilt. Their activities are coordinated with subtle finger gestures they can see real time. This is not a secret society they join but rather a genetic nature. They know as children and from a young age only the Hive are filtered into all positions of prominence. ASD/Aspergers/ADHD are non-Hive from Hive families. Some socially typical are also non-Hive, being exceptions to the exceptions. These non-Hive can lie but not without a feeling of guilt that can be overwhelming. Keeping secrets feels like lying to them. Some finger gesturing lying Hive families deliberately drive their neurodivergent relatives to suicide. That is attempted murder and murder when successful. The high suicide rate for autistics is evidence it is successful. Police and politicians are failing to investigate this crime or to warn potential victims. Autistic women are targeted with disingenuous engagements. Used for sex for a year or more and then dumped. The guy did a finger gesture when proposing to her so in Hive morality it is her fault for not knowing it was fake. It is rape, rape by deception. There is massive discrimination. Only Hive are allowed any position with a public platform or the truth might be spoken. Therefore, all non-Hive such as ASD/Aspergers/ADHD must be excluded. All the ones you hear about are fakes to cover up this fact. No autistic trying to succeed in art, music, acting, media, sport or academia will be successful. The discrimination extends to lower profile employment. Repeated stories of being unable to maintain employment are due to discrimination for being non-Hive. Autistics are the perennial victims of bullying. Always perpetrated by Hive because they don't see or understand the finger gestures. Hive will pretend to be their friends, gain their trust and then often turn into their abusers. This should be criminalized as a form of stalking. All the victims need is the truth. The anti-bullying narrative is exposed as hollow virtue signalling. Suffering from severe or suicidal depression the victims seek help. Again, they are betrayed by qualified doctors and counsellors with a duty of care. Doctors, psychiatrists, counsellors and psychologists will do a finger gesture while lying to them. They are rewarded for disregarding the health and safety of those that trust them. It is a massive criminal medical cover up. The entire neurodiversity narrative appears to be a psyop to drug the non-Hive. They are unable to see the hidden non-verbal language. They only need to be shown. This is the moral equivalent of not telling a blind person that others can see and then tripping them for life. These non-Hive victims don't have the theory of mind to see others can lie without conscience. This is because they have a conscience and it does not occur to them that others do not also have a conscience. All people keeping these secrets are accessories to all crimes committed using them.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Apologies for invoking the fantasy world of She Who Shall Not Be Named, but I've always said that Gryffindors have the potential to be incredibly dangerous people, because of their "strong sense of justice." It's not always a good, sweet, and lovely thing to have unshakable morals and unflinching beliefs about how things ought to be!

[@DataRae-AIEngineer]

As a blue haired person... I am super upset that it didn't "cause" my autism. All this time. I thought I could just dye it back and be neurotypical. /s

[@LustStarrr]

Can confirm - I grew my pink hair out & I'm still autistic AF. 😂

[@nataliemoraes2033]

So having normal hair is being neurotypical ?

[@xoPotatoTreexo]

I went from pink hair to blue and my autism got worse 😱 it couldn't possibly be because the last couple of months have been super stressful and I'm burnt out as heck, it's absolutely got to be my hair colour 😂

[@SarahSmirnova]

​@@DataRae-AIEngineer hmm I must be an anomaly in terms of autistic people. I have never dyed my hair an unnatural colour (including blue), believe in conventional beauty standards, and am right-leaning, but I have Aspergers.

[@trollsansofficial]

​@@nataliemoraes2033 hairtypical

[@DS-zo8xs]

Autism is a spectrum, and so are our interests and beliefs.

[@luizansounds]

I am a great example of that, i drifted though all the political spectrum, and settled in the left but, I'm still autistic and i had my views change over time

[@amberr3662]

And so is electromagnetic I'm ultraviolet personally

[@Newton-Reuther]

Exactly. Plenty of people who are technically autistic but it doesn't actually impact their lives. They just talk about it for clout

[@luizansounds]

made my day x3, i am electromagnetic myself, ultraviolet means sunlight and i dont like sunlight

[@wibbliams]

​@amberr3662 I'm a microwave I'd say

[@keatonwastaken]

From my experience with myself and other autistic friends I have, I think the main reason behind the "autistic people are more left-wing" sentiment is because people who are left-wing tend to be more accepting about things like neurodivergence of themselves and others around them. Meanwhile, the other side tends to be more judgemental about certain disabilities, which causes people who are neurodivergent to not recognize their differences and just mask it, while more "progressive" individuals tend to embrace and appreciate their differences in a variety of ways. I think there is plenty of right-wing neurodivergent people, it's just that many don't recognize it or don't want to recognize it and hide that side of themselves as best as they can. This is probably also related to how "you can fix autism/you cаn become autistic" is quite prevalent in such circles.

[@ArturGlass.C]

Also autistic people tend to not adhere to hierarchy and right wing policies tends to favor status quos, hierarchies and inequalities. So it's not gonna be as appealing if you don't like or understand the point of that stuff.

[@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023]

​​@@mariannastahl4174 That's a very USA-centric way of looking at things, so could you maybe begin your comment with something like "Here in [region of] USA..." - ? Especially considering that this KZbinr is British and there are people from every continent in her audience. If I didn't have family and friends in the US and didn't follow US media, I would have had to google more than once to understand your comment at all.

[@NutrientFan1]

I have found the opposite to be true. Leftists have called me narcissistic for being autistic and failing to understand their extremely high and complicated evangelistic moral standards for political correctness and tend to proclaim loudly that people who disagree with them should be euthanized. Meanwhile right wing individuals I've met tend to stick up for all people, regardless of their ability or "special interest" group. The left has never EVER advocated for me as an autistic individual; they always seemed to resent me for not being useful enough for their activism or agenda purposes.

[@NutrientFan1]

a commie. Nevermind. There is no conversation nor truth to be had here; just communist evangelism.

[@bradiedean7466]

Oh! I really agree with your point that right-wingers might have more difficulty recognizing and/or accepting autism in their selves or their children because they tend to struggle with accepting any kind of difference. I'd like to take it further and suggest that autistic people who are part of conservative communities might also be less likely to recognize their own autism bc 1) these communities tend to heavily stereotype autism and therefore have less awareness of different/less common symptoms and presentations, and 2) conservative ideology and communities heavily encourage and rely on black and white thinking and cognitive inflexibility that might mask whether someone had those bc they're autistic or bc that's how they've been raised to think

[@amberr3662]

I hate when people self diagnose as left wing or right wing, like they're taking away from the experience of people who are ACTUALLY experiencing symptoms of wingism /j /s

[@heatherrae901]

😂😂

[@stillnotstill]

Omg lol!

[@Jesterisim]

right like only a politician can diagnose that!

[@jess6032]

I totally agree

[@5-Volt]

Pfft. You don't even know what you're talking about. That's middle school political science! /s

[@voidilitesingularis]

I can confirm from personal experience that 'strong sense of justice' does NOT equate to 'always right' - my own misguided sense of justice as an autistic person has gotten me into a lot of trouble- and burned a lot of bridges, often irreparably. When you're convinced that you're right, it's easy to justify your own bad behavior to yourself.

[@riahlexington]

Also, it makes me laugh how people think people are faking disabilities to get money for the government or whatever when being disabled can be expensive af.

[@charliedeegan1598]

Theres also a set amount of money you can have and still get disability payments. Lile disabled people cant even get enough to SURVIVE. Much less enough to flaunt and get rich off of 😂

[@crow1461]

and when you usually can't get any government support without a diagnosis?? the only resources I'm using up are stim toys my guy

[@riahlexington]

@@crow1461 true lol.

[@RKNancy]

Faking disabilities is a thing though. A lot of people in Disneyland or World(I am not sure which one) used to apply for the disability pass, despite not having any disabilities. But Disney got rid of that pass and is now forcing everyone to use the Magic Genie+ app, disabled or not. Faking disabilities is not easy, but there's always that one unhinged person who'll go the extra ten miles because they can get easy money, be it faking disabilities or something worse.

[@scarletkittyeyes]

this!!! why would I fake something that is so expensive, isolating and painful???

[@samuelthecamel]

The longer I live, the more I learn that autistic people can be anything. We can have any gender, race, policial opinons, occupation, interests, economic status, nationality... It's just that very often, many groups of people are unaware of what autism really is or have a hard time getting a diagnosis, and that leads to selection bias.

[@whitedragonzerureusu4480]

You would think by now that they would have learnt from their mistakes over the centuries but nope. They keep making sh*t up about us. Do they really have nothing better to do with their lives because it sure as hell looks like it.

[@jayspeidell]

There's an expectation that people will vote for their own interests. When people align their beliefs and identity with an ideology that others and oppresses them it can be hard for people to understand.

[@paxundpeace9970]

This comment sums it up well and does covers that 'death spaces' out of view exist.

[@Jesterisim]

@@chuckles9767 are you saying that there are zero sociological factors that affect autistic people’s lives? if not, idk what you’re trying to say here.

[@chuckles9767]

@@Jesterisimi was comparing the right to the left. The right are all about meritocracy = the autistic did something to themselves to bring it on. As explained in the video. Whereas the left says everything is 100% social, therefore if the autistic isn't nirmal or super powered, they choose not to be. It then forces medical interventions on people that only focus on social. Then blames autistics because when this obviously fails, because the only conclusion is the autistic "choose" to fail. See? It's a different kind of blaming the autistic then the rights "meritocracy" style. But its there none the less. Eg "i choose not to drive" because 5% of autistics drive and the left gave me supports. So it's obviously a choice, yes? No it's not. My eyes close, i can't keep them open. No matter how many societal factors are changed, that'll never be possible. But blamed and shamed, i am.

[@Lady8D]

Telling autistic people not to label themselves autistic feels, to me, like telling amputees not to label themselves amputees. Feels like she's saying "It's a part of you & something you need to conquer. Just try harder. If you have the right mindset, your limb(s) will regrow" Idk, perhaps I'm just extra sensitive on the subject seeing as I'm an AuDHD physically disabled lesbian that's heard "It just takes more effort" far too many times in my life - I _wish_ it were so simple! One thing I know for certain: every single time I've finally just accepted a new label for myself rather than fighting it, my mental health has improved & my ability to adapt has been strengthened. I can't help wondering if part of the reason Blair is anti-labels is (in part) due to her gender dysphoria & not wanting to be seen as trans but to instead just be accepted for the woman she is. Then again, maybe not - perhaps if that were the case she'd prefer the company of those of us who see her that way rather than those who think she's an abomination & shouldn't be allowed to exist 🤷

[@facthunt2facthunt245]

Why didn't she conquer her gender dysphoria?

[@SaintCharlos]

1st. I don't like labeling myself as autistic because everyone would see me as "that autistic girl" and patronize and infantilize me. I hate when my mom tells everyone I'm autistic - I just want to be treated like a normal human adult. 2nd. While Blaire would enjoy the company of people who accept her, many people on the left also happen to be vile human beings.

[@DeadVoxel]

Literally. Autistic people, or any people for that matter, seek labels to feel better about themselves, to understand themselves better and to have a name for who they are, to acutally be able to connect with other people who go by the same labels! Man, woman, black, white, human, disabled, straight, trans, autistic, neurotypical, pretty much EVERYTHING we as a society go by is FILLED with labels. "Right wing" is also a label. Conservative is a label. Everything in our society is a label. Even things that people don't usually recognize as such are all still labels, so why are people so pressed about them?

[@hayuseen6683]

When people say "try harder" I want to ask them how they did it, since what I'm trying doesn't work. Make them explain in detail. I bet they never had to try hard or even know how they do things. If they can't explain it, they're not helpful, better to ignore their dumb demands.

[@DeadVoxel]

​@@hayuseen6683 preach. It's easy to say "try harder", but why don't they try harder then? Why do WE have to try so hard to live in the society and struggle to communicate with people? Why don't they make an effort to understand or help us? Why do we have to make an effort to understand THEM? Just saying "try harder" is like telling a person in a wheelchair to get up and walk... They need a wheelchair for a reason, you know? How am I supposed to try harder if I already put so much effort into just existing? I mean good for you, neurotypicals who say that, it's good that you never have to try hard. Which is why you're not in the right place to tell someone to try harder

[@kayjohnston1132]

I cannot stand up and argue for the things I passionately believe in, because the moment I try my brain begins to shut off. Like, not only do I get very upset very quickly I lose the ability to string sentences together within a minute or two of speaking... :(

[@weirdcatkid]

This is too real honestly... i feel like there are bubbles blocking my throat and i just can't speak.

[@rachelina97]

Absolutely the most frustrating experience. The inability to articulate my point due to stress shutting my brain down will possibly be the end of me. Granted, I notice this mostly happens around people who tend to shut down my ideas at a glance, so maybe my body already knows that expending my energy this way will not be productive.

[@skylark3232]

Same 😬 I can have a whole well articulated imaginary argument with someone while I'm in the shower or trying to got to sleep, but the minute I have to argue with a real person, my face gets red hot and I shut down.

[@lizhornauer4614]

​@@skylark3232That's me 😔

[@Kaejune75]

I completely relate! I always felt betrayed by my brain in moments like that and would end up crying in frustration. 🙁

[@ombrenightcores]

I’m autistic and quite literally have “liberal” tattoos. My mom is autistic and she thinks anyone who isn’t white should be deported. We’re both pretty open about our diagnoses. So like… no???

[@ladyothelake7386]

Your mom sounds cool

[@BluestHypnotist]

You seem cool.

[@SarahSmirnova]

@@ombrenightcores the illegal immigrants should be deported. That's probably what she means, and she is correct to say that.

[@ombrenightcores]

I love how I’ve collected one from both sides

[@lucas23453]

@@ombrenightcores Im a libertarian leaning centrist, you both sound cool. We should have a cookout, no beer though, that might end badly.

[@RivLoveshine]

I'm diagnosed with autism. I'm very liberal and LGBTQ+. My family thinks that my dad is autistic. He's super conservative and anti-LGBTQ+.

[@T.K.Wellington1996]

KZbin is censoring my free speach agian.

[@T.K.Wellington1996]

You are not liberal or tolerant.

[@stillnotstill]

​@@T.K.Wellington1996 calm all the way down

[@T.K.Wellington1996]

@@stillnotstill KZbin is censoring everything anyways.

[@bigoudi07]

​@@T.K.Wellington1996 if your free speech is being rude then thank god it is censored.

[@urlocalbrunet]

I'm honestly so tired of hearing people call others "wokies". It sounds like such an awful word and people don't even use it correctly. Hopefully people will stop using it soon because most people don't even know what "woke" means and it just gets thrown around

[@imautisticnowwhat]

It's never a good sign when someone uses that word unironically 😅

[@chandratownsend3891]

I miss the good old days where it meant you were privy to the lies and deceptions that manipulate the masses and as a result of that knowledge, didn't fall for the crap we are fed. The word was high jacked, unfortunately. It used to mean: woke=awakened, as in your eyes were opened to truth others are blind to.

[@shy2infinity]

The uptick of the word "woke" reminds me of the SJW era, unironically 😅I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@DeandaGe]

I enjoy it when people use terms like that because they are MASSIVELY AND AGGRESSIVELY WAVING THEIR RED FLAGS LMFAO

[@mayonnaiseonanescalator7237]

I have the feeling that the word "wokie" might become a slur one day.

[@twixieshores]

Autistic definitely doesn't mean left wing. I mean, *I'm* trans, love trains and am as far left as they come, but I've spent time around plenty of autistic people who think Trump and Farage are great.

[@missoats8731]

But do those people know they're autistic? I think it's just much more likely to be aware of being autistic if you're a more left leaning.

[@crazyratlady3115]

As an autistic woman, the number of autistic men who fall down the alt-right red pill pipeline and blame their incel status on women being ableist, rather than self-reflecting and realising that it's actually because they're an asshole is... sadly too common.

[@kerryharrell8821]

Unfortunately, people are too quick to put others in an ideological box. I'm a 50 year old autistic man who is straight and voted for Trump. That alone would cause many to put me in a box with white supremacists, puppy kickers, and militia groups. In actuality, I'm passionate about animal welfare, and I'm a wildlife rehabilitator that runs a wildlife rescue. I believe everyone is worthy of dignity and due consideration. My political beliefs are a mix of conservatism and libertarianism, I have a live and let live approach to life. My reason for voting for trump has nothing to do with any ideology per se, as a successful businessman who knows how to cut red tape and is a strong negotiator, I felt he was the best qualified candidate.

[@elbownio5820]

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[@alisonmercer5946]

​@@kerryharrell8821 idk how u can listen to that man and not think he is a monster. And his followers are unhinged theylleven deny his own words And he is a white supremacist so u cant be too against it his favorite book is that book by the head of the nazi party. rty

[@awkwardpawsome]

"Colored hair used to be cool, please take is back" YOU take it back, Blair! You are fully capable of dying your hair! If people hate you because you enjoy expressing yourself, they never cared about you in the first place and are unimportant!

[@Wreniffer]

blair is like the evil twin of Samantha (is her full name samantha lax?)

[@karenholmes6565]

She is one of the most self loathing people in the world. She would never put a toe out of line if it got her an inch of criticism from people that despise her for being trans

[@CUSTERM16A2]

Hair dyed is the mark leftwing toxicity.

[@awkwardpawsome]

@Wreniffer Lol YES

[@SarahSmirnova]

@awkwardpawsome I adore Blair. She is very rational and smart. The people who refer to her as "far right" and "reactionary" are only calling her those things because her worldview does not fall into the Far-Left, Post-Enlightenment, "Everything is fluid and subjective" socio-politcal paradigm that now pre-dominates Western society. Her views are actually balanced and intelligent, and not "extreme" at all.

[@digiscream]

For what it's worth, regarding Blair White's "centre-right" self-designation...US politics are significantly skewed to the right, to the point where their Democrat party would be best described as centrist here in the UK, as our Conservatives would be in the US.

[@sweetmimi286]

Here in Brazil, the US Democrat party would be considered right-wing, and Bernie Sanders would be considered a regular right-wing, not a revolutionary one.

[@AllhailTDLjimpic]

@@sweetmimi286 How the hell did Bolsonaro get elected then? He is to the right of any high profile American politician.

[@caseyminett7394]

I'm poor. I am currently putting my 7 year old through diagnosis because she needs it for school. I'm saving to do mine. I remember seeing that video of Blair's. I had purple hair at the time. I changed it because I was genuinely scared it would affect my daughter and her diagnosis. I actually spiralled mentally so much after seeing her video. I think it's so important for us to understand that people are happy to pass judgement on things they don't fully understand for clout. I have not faked my life experience. It's really. Thank you for being you. I'm so glad I found you. I know we are going to be ok once we have some support. I see a light now. Keep being the light. ❤

[@nikacomedawn]

My college (admittedly a pretty right wing college) has a program for autistic people (not run by autism moms, it's actually helpful). Most of us were fairly liberal but one individual came in wearing a MAGA hat.

[@flamingshortsflamingshorts1633]

The term Hive refers to those humans that control society and all groups. These groups appear to be competing but they are really unified in maintaining the illusion. Their success comes from the nature of being able to lie and keep secrets without a feeling of guilt. Their activities are coordinated with subtle finger gestures they can see real time. This is not a secret society they join but rather a genetic nature. They know as children and from a young age only the Hive are filtered into all positions of prominence. ASD/Aspergers/ADHD are non-Hive from Hive families. Some socially typical are also non-Hive, being exceptions to the exceptions. These non-Hive can lie but not without a feeling of guilt that can be overwhelming. Keeping secrets feels like lying to them. Some finger gesturing lying Hive families deliberately drive their neurodivergent relatives to suicide. That is attempted murder and murder when successful. The high suicide rate for autistics is evidence it is successful. Police and politicians are failing to investigate this crime or to warn potential victims. Autistic women are targeted with disingenuous engagements. Used for sex for a year or more and then dumped. The guy did a finger gesture when proposing to her so in Hive morality it is her fault for not knowing it was fake. It is rape, rape by deception. There is massive discrimination. Only Hive are allowed any position with a public platform or the truth might be spoken. Therefore, all non-Hive such as ASD/Aspergers/ADHD must be excluded. All the ones you hear about are fakes to cover up this fact. No autistic trying to succeed in art, music, acting, media, sport or academia will be successful. The discrimination extends to lower profile employment. Repeated stories of being unable to maintain employment are due to discrimination for being non-Hive. Autistics are the perennial victims of bullying. Always perpetrated by Hive because they don't see or understand the finger gestures. Hive will pretend to be their friends, gain their trust and then often turn into their abusers. This should be criminalized as a form of stalking. All the victims need is the truth. The anti-bullying narrative is exposed as hollow virtue signalling. Suffering from severe or suicidal depression the victims seek help. Again, they are betrayed by qualified doctors and counsellors with a duty of care. Doctors, psychiatrists, counsellors and psychologists will do a finger gesture while lying to them. They are rewarded for disregarding the health and safety of those that trust them. It is a massive criminal medical cover up. The entire neurodiversity narrative appears to be a psyop to drug the non-Hive. They are unable to see the hidden non-verbal language. They only need to be shown. This is the moral equivalent of not telling a blind person that others can see and then tripping them for life. These non-Hive victims don't have the theory of mind to see others can lie without conscience. This is because they have a conscience and it does not occur to them that others do not also have a conscience. All people keeping these secrets are accessories to all crimes committed using them.

[@bersablossom4952]

EVERY single video I absolutely fall in love with your style, today the earrings made me go absolutely crazy with how cute they are lol! You absolutely rock them.

[@imautisticnowwhat]

Thank youuu! That's such a lovely comment! 💛💛💛

[@diegos1325]

As was said in the video, a "strong sense of justice" and "inflexibly following rules" is not inherently left leaning, since "justice and law" is usually used by right leaning parties as part of their appeal

[@Autistic_Goblin]

"Justice" is not the same as "law" and is often mutually exclusive. Example is the man who was recently executed in the US despite having been exonerated.

[@diegos1325]

@@Autistic_Goblin That is true, and I agree on that. Justice is a lot more subjective and can run counter to law. At the same time I could easily see how appealing the idea of "Justice = law, and law is what's written down as clear and defined rules" could be for autistic people

[@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV]

Inflexibly following rules often also includes inflexibly not following other rules and the rules that one follows may not have been set by whichever entity seeks to hold authority over one. So I think this is just as likely if not more to be an anti-authoritarian trait

[@diegos1325]

@@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV That's also true! I guess in the end my point is that those traits that are common for autistic people give no inherent indication of political leaning

[@bradiedean7466]

​@@diegos1325 I agree. And while what is just and what is legal are not necessarily the same thing, conservative communities and institutions specifically teach that they ARE, such as evangelical churches who teach that questioning "biological commands" or thinking at all critically about the issues with the Bible makes you a dirty sinner committing thought crime

[@jordanrambles7127]

Nothing’s stopping Blaire from dying her hair a different colour other than her own insecurity and grift that makes her have to think about ‘they/thems’ more than ‘they/thems’ think about themselves

[@timgilligan3885]

Dying

[@JustAnzia]

someone told me i couldnt be autistic if I know how to use social media and want to talk about what its like to live with disability and share educational information... apparently because I do those things I'm not autistic... so many are gatekeeping the autistic experience... its almost like people forget that autism is a spectrum just like any other diagnosis

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

Some people still don’t know, my mom didn’t even know it was a spectrum until I told her. She only saw people like Kodi Lee from AGT and assumed that was everyone’s experience who was autistic (sorry if that is a little weird in wording) Just saying sometimes you gotta open people’s eyes. It might not always work but at least try.

[@JustAnzia]

@DoofenSpyroDragon16 i think my parents are the only ones who truly know how autistic I am because of the mask i put on online and outside my home in public

[@pedrol5004]

​@@JustAnzia I hope the mask isn't stressing you too much. Heavy masking can be very dangerous to your mental health. It's something that I struggle with a lot

[@JustAnzia]

@pedrol5004 im at home pretty much everyday atm because I hit burnout so I haven't masked in 2 weeks but I still feel like dookie

[@aelwynwitch9460]

When ppl bitch about pronouns it just lets me know they have never had an office job, bc that's been the norm for a decade bc other countries (outside of the USA) names aren't as easy to figure out in regards to gender. Save embarrassment for CEOs.

[@lh2435]

I bitch about pronouns and I had many office jobs. The reason I bitch about it is because nowadays it stands for the claim that sex is something that someone chooses, which is not true. I call someone who looks like a man or a woman that but not someone who takes the piss by changing nothing and demanding that others pretend to see something they don't.

[@CUSTERM16A2]

To hell with the pronoun delusions and to hell with their enables like you!

[@aelwynwitch9460]

@lh2435 sex =/= gender. You failed medical school, didn't you?

[@cameronschyuder9034]

@@lh2435 No... you're correct, neither birth sex or gender identity is a choice. If they were choices, then there would be much less transgender people than there are. Whether you express your gender or not is a choice, though, as well as how you express it. This can be through pronouns, or through clothing, or if necessary, medical transition. Why is this important, you may ask? Because while other people don't really care if their gender is or is perceived one way or another, there are others that are strongly attached as their gender, be they cisgender or transgender, and would be uncomfortable perceived as a different gender. Transgender people just have the misfortune that their gender is not the gender associated with the sex they were born with. Just like cisgender people do not choose to have their gender agree with their sex, transgender people do not choose to have their gender misalign with their birth sex. People who tell others, my pronouns are actually "x," are choosing to live their lives in a way that is least uncomfortable for themselves, bc they can't simply just change one or the other. Either live in a perpetual discomfort/hell (dysphoria is a spectrum), or hope that there are accepting ppl out there that don't care about what pronouns to call someone. The latter is much more appealing, for hopefully obvious reasons. It seems you do not care about how people are really like and that some things are not immediately obvious as an outside observer. You may not even care for other people's quality of life, even if making someone happy is at most a minor inconvenience to yourself. Nobody can force you to do anything you don't want to do. But what you say abt "others pretend to see something they don't" is flatly incorrect for other people (some), because (some) other people do recognize that a book is not all about the cover, and even if they don't really understand the book, they can still accept it for what it is, not just what it looks like.

[@hayuseen6683]

​​@@lh2435Genuinely curious: what value does gender add to your life? How does it shape your social experience, and does treating someone as another gender cause a problem or are you reacting based on how you've expected to treat people in the past? Are you willing to treat others as genderless?

[@sjzara]

I’m gay and also autistic (both are self-diagnosed, although my husband agrees with both). I’m afraid I have no hair left, so it can’t be died blue. I am rather left wing though, so I am trying.

[@amberr3662]

Wait you can be diagnosed gay???

[@Nethezbet]

You can't be autistic, you made a joke.

[@neoqwerty]

@@amberr3662 I diagnose you with Gay, you must now ask for rainbow sprinkles on all your cakes and ice cream.

[@llamawalrushybrid]

@@amberr3662 In the DSM-1 yes you could. But also they're joking.

[@CricketGirrl]

Love this! 💙

[@Raven74408]

Having a "strong sense of justice" is good in some ways but unhelpful in other ways. That's the case with almost all autism symptoms. Having intense narrow interests or "special interests" can make you really capable in your field or a particular niche, but at the same time if you struggle to pull away from your special interest to the point that you're neglecting other things in your life, than that's obviously bad. Being sensitive to sensory input is often unpleasant, but when we find an input that we do like, it tends to feel intensely good. The list goes on and on.

[@Claire_Wow]

@@Raven74408 i lovw fluffy stuff :)

[@cat-mf1sk]

​@@Claire_WowBro i learn how to sew and crochet just so that i can make cute plushies. Long live fluffy things🗣️🗣️❗❗

[@Claire_Wow]

@@cat-mf1sk LETS GOOOO :D

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

Ember Green did a video on this topic on the 7th of October, 2024. There are right wingers who selectively accept some forms of autism, for all the wrong reasons. Yes, Elon Musk is one such example.

[@CUSTERM16A2]

Furvert!

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

@@CUSTERM16A2 Grow up.

[@cat-mf1sk]

i delete twitter because of that man, it's used to be my fav place to look at beautiful work by other artist. Now it's full with extreme right wingers and i dont even follow them

[@Evlionn]

The Nazis actually liked certain types of Autistic people, as the whole Asberger thing reveals, so it makes sense that the right doesn't have a problem with autistic people, so long as they are useful to them.

[@eddiehimself]

From my experience on Discord, there have been a lot of right-wing incel types who love to throw around "autism/autistic" as an insult, but I never felt more insulted than by this hard-left socialist guy who _insisted_ that "Autism isn't a REAL disability" because he apparently had so many autistic friends that he really loved. And that somehow means that our struggles that we feel aren't really debilitating? Because of how many "friends" he has that are autistic and they don't tell him about their struggles? More like they don't want to tell this guy because he was just a massive bully, inviting literal children onto this server just so they could berate them for not being "mature" enough. Glad I got out of that place.

[@facthunt2facthunt245]

His friends obviously had low support needs. It didn't occur to him that people with high support needs exist.

[@CD-ec6xx]

Yeah from my experience, ableism is a huge issue in liberal/leftist spaces. Like they'll say ableism isn't that big of a problem. Then turn around say some ableist crap. Then their plans for progress, disability isn't really taken into consideration. Like they think it'll universally help disabled people. Even when it won't. Or any problems that do occur can easily be solved by x. When x is only a bandaid on a gapping wound. There's more. Definitely holding a moral superiority over disabled people thing. It's just frustrating. I say this as someone more left leaning. Not everyone and a lot of people mean well.

[@hayuseen6683]

Being of one political group or another doesn't mean that person thought through their positions well or even have principled stances. Plenty of wimpy brained people to buy in to rhetoric on all sides.

[@ChibiMoyashis]

Sounds like my estranged father who insisted "I'm not homophobic bc one of my friends came out as gay" and "I have one half-black friend so I can't be racist"... while spewing slurs, insults, and outdated stereotypes about all of the above, and saying anything besides being cishet was disgusting, and insisting that "cis" and "het" are slurs. ...Simply put, people like that- regardless of political alignment- are a$$holes.

[@heat420_7]

A trans woman telling neurodivergents to just deal with their condition is WILD. Like, no shade to her for following her feelings and transitioning, but, is there no empathy for others at all?

[@ryanstardust_]

No, not even for her own community.

[@happybalint]

shes just a grifter dont take her seriously

[@Sandstimes]

Tbh she's just a grifter, she's not even saying her personal beliefs, just what her right wing audience wants to hear. There was a controversy a while ago because she took a political compass test but edited over the webpage to fake her answers not knowing that the URL for each test result is unique, so people were able to see that she faked her results to being a lot more right wing than what they actually were. Not that her faking her beliefs makes her better, if anything it makes her worse bc logically she should know better lol

[@bellarosethorne]

it's not even about telling ND folks to 'deal with their condition', that's just the dogwhistle for what is essentially "I don't believe the majority of ND folks are actually ND". But no, definitely not, no empathy for others. She is way too busy thinking of herself and anyone else who deviates from the cis, white, neurotypical ideal, as second class and broken and in need of being brought into line - only the ideal is correct for her, anything else must be fixed and people must accept that they are the 'guests' living at the ideal's whim.

[@Tw1nkerbelle]

She got her help, now she doesn’t want others to get it.

[@tayzonday]

“Left” and “right” mean little when one critically evaluates policy contextually. Internet infrastructure buries nuance because tribal behavior is profitable behavior.

[@PlurCo]

🧡

[@mikawaii_og]

Oh hey nice to run into you here!

[@jakeosbaldeston6830]

for real its funny cuz both ideologies are fundamentally anti authority but nobody notices it

[@timgilligan3885]

Well said.

[@elbownio5820]

​@@jakeosbaldeston6830rightwing is fundamentally authoritarian. rightwing libertarian ideology doesn't account for the authority and inherent political power that comes from accumulating wealth through capitalism.

[@ghoulthebraineater]

Considering woke is just being aware of social injustice I'm not surprised a lot of us would be "woke". It's pretty easy to be aware when you experience it.

[@kingmasterlord]

it doesn't mean that anymore. it means indoctrinated

[@MrStyles784]

​@@kingmasterlordthe right is trying to redefine it that way, but they also don't seem to know what "indoctrinated" actually means

[@THERMALSCOPES13]

That social injustice is fake though. There is no social injustice that you are seeing most of the time

[@jess.singswithleaves6]

​@kingmasterlord Nope, the definition has only changed for those who dismiss anything related to equity and awareness of oppression in all its forms

[@WhyYoutubeWhy]

No that's not what it means. it's more about fake social injustices.

[@chloe-sunshine7]

"So, we're starting with Blaire White" Oh no xD

[@fayfay961]

I am one! (Right wing autistic.) And I am a woman! The first autistic woman I met "in the wild" was a huge Trump supporter!!! She is also gay! If you don't think Autistic people can be right wing, just spend a little time on 4chan, lol!

[@bradiedean7466]

Personally, until I went to college, every single person I knew who I also knew was autistic was extremely conservative, and that unfortunately included myself, even tho I wasn't diagnosed then. I think it was bc it was a highly conservative area, and most of the conservative arguments that we shared revolved around the idea that social supports were "unfair" to those who worked harder, not being able to see nuance in morality, and feeling like harsh punishment and strict role enforcement (even when this is very uncompassionate) is morally right because we were so black and white. I also found myself easily influenced by misinformation and bigoted beliefs if they were told to me by someone I trusted, because I literally could not imagine that someone wouldn't share my Need to be totally honest and motivated by doing what's right. It didn't even occur to be that authority figures could be wrong about what is right and wrong, largely bc that's also what I was taught in my very conservative evangelical church. But then, I went to college and for the first time had those authority figures and my school's norms teaching me the skills to think critically and analyze fallacies in my logic that forced me to realize that my beliefs were incongruous with my values. Ex: I had been taught that social welfare programs were unfair to those who put in the work to take care of themselves, but then my professors who had given me the skills needed to compare evidence quality also taught me about things like redlining and other systemic issues that meant the game was already unfair to start with, so helping those who were screwed over already was actually making things MORE fair. Once the cracks in the brainwashing and informational control became someone I was aware of, my need for honest transparency and social justice drive me to fully investigate every one of the regulations and political beliefs I had been taught, the evidence for and against, and the impact those beliefs had on other people and the societies we live in. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I believed I was hurting people, no matter how much it benefitted me personally, so I became the resident socialist of the family. So tldr, IMHO, I think on average autistic people are more likely to come down on the side of social justice when fully educated in a situation, BUT I think that our social deficits (like being overly trusting, not understanding what someone wouldn't be completely genuine, having difficulty putting ourselves in another person's shoes, or viewing the law or an ethical issue too too black-and-white, discomfort with change when routine/traditions are more comfortable) can make us MORE prone to radicalization, manipulation, or apathy towards issues that don't affect us/go against our worldview. I think this is also decently supported by the stats that show autistic people as being more likely to end up targeted by abusers, scammers, or cults/high control religions.

[@Matsukaze-o3e]

it is all too sad with quite a few autistic people also having PTSD

[@GraceBrooks-zy3ms]

This is super powerful, thank you for sharing this! During my assessment process I was actually asked about these themes, and I explained how I used to try to stop others from doing things I thought were wrong.. I used to be pro life when I was a teen, and once I had left my small town and learned more information I became pro choice, it's all the same function of inflexible/black and white thinking though. Education is so important.

[@morgan.simmons]

I relate to your story so much, thank you for sharing. The information that makes up your foundational knowledge really does make a difference. I was also raised in an evangelical church and ended up joining my fair share of cult-like organizations. I've had to reeducate myself and be open to many different perspectives to learn new things. It was life-changing for me to leave the church, travel, and simply Google the questions and doubts in my mind instead of taking what the parents and leaders in my life said as absolute truth.

[@carolinejames7257]

Thank you for sharing, and for unpacking how new information and understanding changed your stance. My experience differed from yours somewhat, but the experience of new data and understanding overturning formerly accepted beliefs is absolutely familiar to me. As a child and young adult, I didn't understand that people were manipulating the information I had access to, as well as the tools I had to analyse the world around me. It took me a long time to realise that. I'm fairly cynical now, as a result, but thinking analytically about all information, not just that from disliked or untrustworthy sources, can still be a battle. A tendency to just accept data if it comes from someone we like and/or trust is sadly fairly common.

[@ClayJoTheBurninator]

Okay but that blouse 😍

[@imautisticnowwhat]

Thank you soo much!! 💛

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

And the earrings 🧹 I love the outfit!

[@CatOnVenus183]

21:30 This is so true. Often times online when I post, some random bigot will comment some shit like "the autism is dripping with this one" or anything along the lines to say I'm autistic, but if I say it, then suddenly i'm a faker? Dosen't make sense lol

[@poiwytlee]

I have noticed that autistic people who are "right wing" also have a tendency to identify as someone with Asperger's over autistic. I have noticed this on some of those apps that are made for autistic socialization like Hiki (defunct now) and Autistic Empathy. Idk what this says or if it's my own confirmation bias but it's a correlation I've noticed.

[@toxicsugarart2103]

So real

[@Solstice261]

Yeah, me as well, I think they do it to separate themselves from people with autism which their environment sees as bad, while they generally see Asperger's as good since a lot of important businesses people had Asperger's before it was reclassified so it's very common for them to reject being autistic since that would make them disabled under their view

[@dinosaysrawr]

Ah, true! There are certainly exceptions to the rule, but I have found that right-wingers are more likely to be in denial about or oblivious to their autistic traits, bitterly angry about being autistic, fully submerged in the "Aspie Supremacy" Kool-Aid, or some combination thereof.

[@lizhornauer4614]

Früher hatte ich das Vorurteil, dass Asperger -Autisten außergewöhnlich klug oder begabt seien. Ich weiß nicht woher das kam. Mein Bruder glaubt das heute noch.

[@RONHICKSK2]

I used that term because that’s what I was diagnosed with

[@sweet-sally]

"assuming it's apart of your identity" bro,,, it's like mental illnesses, disorders, and diseases do make up part of your identity to a degree,,, like,,,?

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

I’ve definitely questioned if autistic people are more likely to be left-wing. From my own experience with this win the right usually, again from my own experience, are less likely to be accepting of autism or even believe people who aren’t Sheldon from Big Bang theory have autism. In a way it might stem from right wingers in general being less accepting of social differences. The general idea of diversity being weakness that right-wingers in my life believe in would also apply to neurodiversity. Not to mention the “pick yourself up by your bootstrap” mentality can apply to telling autistic people to suck up their issues with social rejection and mask. In addition, the connection between queerness and neurodiversity would move a lot of queer autistic people to lean toward the side who accepts their sexual or gender identities. Again, this is just from my experience from members of my family and people I have been friends with.

[@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist]

Yep. As a left-wing autistic person who grew up with right-wingers, I was neglected and abused for my diagnosis. When talking to right-wingers, you either get the utmost extreme answers (either that your condition doesn’t exist/you don’t deserve help because you’re “able” enough/people like you should be offed) or you get the more tame signals that you aren’t accepted because you’re considered “too off”. So yeah, I think it has to do with acceptance and knowledge. Autistic people don’t usually wish to hang around in spaces where they’re openly hated.

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

I was trying to be overly nice in my comment but you took some of my actual experiences into words. This is exactly what I have experienced. I do not want to be affiliated with the side of politics that has a majority whom hates me for no reason other than existing.

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

Or maybe not a majority but a significant portion that hates me for being born like this

[@avtoportret]

Black and black thinking is black and white thinking. And with right/left division, you're either right-wing autistic or left-wing autistic. But you can switch, that happens.

[@NutrientFan1]

Are these bot comments? Yall keep ejecting the same script.

[@Kagomai15]

I am self identified as autistic because an official diagnosis for an adult in Ontario (idk for the rest of Canada) costs about $4000 CAD. People can be so afraid of labels. Like, I got into an argument with my cousin about why people need all these newfangled labels and why can't they just be weird people and we respect that? I'm like, because when we don't label ourselves accurately other people give us derogatory labels ? And we can internalize that?

[@Chillyrose]

Hello! fellow person from Ontario here. I was able to get diagnosed for free by going to my doctor and getting a referral to a psychiatrist. Had to wait a couple months but it was 100% covered 👍

[@Kagomai15]

@@Chillyrose i got a referral too and the email i got said it'd cost between $3.5-4k. Maybe I can ask to be referred somewhere else, lol

[@Chillyrose]

@@Kagomai15 oh wow, thats wild. My doctor knew of my financial situation so maybe that helped somehow? idk but I hope you can figure it out! Ontario healthcare system is pretty confusing at times.😅

[@Vaith]

canada is fucked up and doctors are just as fucked up. my old doctor was abusive verbally to me all the time and made my life worse. doesnt mean there are not good doctors but theres an awful lot of awful ones who will abuse you for money.

[@JenTheHippie]

Ya know, serial killers mask who they are, too. Doesn't make them *not* serial killers.

[@soyevquirsefron990]

I’m a bit autistic and I was more conservative when I was younger, because the short simple answers seemed like common sense. “Just do the right thing and stop doing that stupid thing and you’ll be fine like me” But I work with disadvantaged people and I realized that if i had their disadvantages I wouldn’t have been able simply “do the right thing” either. If I wasn’t educated or financially secure, or if I had been born with more brain chemistry imbalances or I was stuck in a small house with 10 family members. I was exposed to different people and it made me realize that there’s not short simple answers for everyone.

[@Seánybruv]

Yeah and guess what, the more brown and black people we bring into White nations, the more the disabled will be disadvantaged and neglected. Caring about the disabled and vulnerable is actually a very European Christian thing.

[@wessltov]

Back in my day, autistic traits were often associated with leaning to the right, mainly through the "debate me in the ring" mentality. Now that it's clear that we do indeed have feelings and aren't completely rigid in our thinking, autism is becoming gatekept based on opinion? The pendulum of public understanding swings on and on...

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

Historically, my personal life always tends to get worse under a right-wing government and at least I feel like I can survive under a left-wing government.

[@The315fan]

That’s why I have never voted 🗳️ Conservative since being of voting age

[@CUSTERM16A2]

Degenerate!

[@CUSTERM16A2]

Reprobate!

[@snapdragonslair]

I completely fall into this stereotype other than the attention seeking thing. I'm a bit more outgoing online, but irl I'm an introverted awkward person who prefers cats to people

[@Blake-ij4kw]

Cats >>>> People

[@snapdragonslair]

@@Blake-ij4kw objectively correct

[@ticcitoby1936]

I think we're secretly the same person/j

[@snapdragonslair]

@@ticcitoby1936 thanks, if you hadn't put /j I would've thought we were actually the same person /s

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

As a queer non-binary person with they/them pronouns and officially diagnosed with ASD and ADHD... This shit pisses me off. I didn't choose any of this for myself. Its not easy being non-binary / trans... Its not a "woke ideology". Its having a word for how i feel and having access to social, medical and mental tools to be able to live more authentically and therefore being a happier person. I also resent anyone who says that ASD or ADHD are mental disorders or mental illnesses. I know its under the psychology umbrella, but its a nurological difference and a disability. Its not curable and the idea of it being "treatable" is laughable because ethical treatment largely has to do with working with the difference rather than trying to "fix" it. Im glad you cover these videos. But it just makes me so damn pissed off hearing about these opinions. It has been so damn hard to come out to friends and family and to take steps in transitioning and taking steps to reduce the self hatred and increase acts of self love. Its also TERRIFYING living in the U.S. right now as a trans person who is visibility queer and "passing" is a privilege I will never have. Yikes.

[@Shrimpozy]

I’m also a nonbinary autistic person. I feel you 😭

[@hyperr_hydro]

@@Shrimpozynonbinary autism crew! (Im getting tested for ASD on the 15th!)💛🤍💜🖤

[@davey_rulez7301]

I've noticed that autistic people tend to have strong political views no matter if they are left-wing views or right-wing views. I'm autistic and I feel strongly about my anarchist views, I knew an autistic person who was VERY passionate about their political views (which would be best described as radical centrist with a haphazard mashup of right-wing and left-wing views) and my dad (who is most likely autistic) is very adamant about his conservative views. An anarchist KZbinr I watch who is ADHD but not autistic said a few weeks ago said that while neurodivergent people as a whole tend to have long, deep thoughts about our worldviews, apparently neurotypical people just... don't do that??? They kinda just find an answer that gives them closure and move on????

[@kunibob2]

Here's the thing: I usually do prefer shorter videos, but yours NEVER feel too long. Maybe it's because you communicate in a way that works with my brain. I'm usually surprised when they're already over! So please keep doing what you're doing! ❤

[@TeagueisTrash]

the reason why we're woke (or me at least) is because the struggles of autism (and being biracial) make me understand everyone's struggles better and i can empathize with them :)

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

I agree, my struggles have made me a lot less judge mental and a lot more empathetic to differences which sometimes goes against right-wing ideologies which, from my experience, are more focused on keeping people in a social box and being hateful to those who do not fit

[@TeagueisTrash]

@@mspaintdoodle9989 dont have any doubt in your mind that the right wing is anti autistic, they used to sterilize us and put us in camps :(

[@amberr3662]

Ironic how a lot of autistic people, who are notoriously stereotyped to be non-empathetic, seem to have more empathy than certain neurotypicals

[@whitedragonzerureusu4480]

Yep and that's how you develop and learn empathy. Which those people sorely lack when they do crap like this over and over.

[@THERMALSCOPES13]

You’re a mixed breed? Miscegenation is deeply wrong…you should be ashamed of yourself

[@ClaraDarko]

I'm autistic, gender non conforming, animal rights advocate, disability advocate, LGBTQ+ rights advocate, and I'm what Trump and company call "the radical left". Happy to be on the opposite end of the political / moral spectrum to those people. However, my brother, also autistic (though he doesn't want to admit it), is a Q-Anon conspiracist, anti-public healthcare, anti-public education, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, force-birther, Bitcoin bro, racist, homophobic Trump voter 🤷🏻‍♀️ We don't talk anymore, by the way.

[@NutrientFan1]

You're not worth more than he is. Just putting it out there since you seem to want asspats or applause or something for this

[@Solstice261]

​@@NutrientFan1they didn't imply that, they made a hard line between to extreme different political sides and both autistic, and the fact you think being anti vax and a conspiracist makes people a poor underdog that needs to help to show how better than everyone they are says more about you than anyone, go grift somewhere else or at least set bots do do your sad trolling it would make you seem less pathetic

[@kents.2866]

​@NutrientFan1 he sounds like a peice of crap. Climate change denial, not into universal Healthcare. That's fine, difference of opinion. But racist and anti LGBTQ+ rights. GTFO.

[@aaronfleisher4694]

@@NutrientFan1 "asspats"? Is that "pats on the ass" or "pats with the ass"? Would one pat someone else's ass with one's own ass when asspatting? Or does one asspat on something else? Is a rapid asspat indistinguishable from a twerk?

[@stillnotstill]

​@@NutrientFan1 nobody's worth more than any other person. But what op had to say was worth far more than what you did. 🤷

[@nBasedAce]

The way doctors diagnose someone with Autism is they ask the questions the DSM-5 has, which anyone can see, and follow what it says about diagnosing someone. Which is something anyone can do with the DSM-5, so self-diagnosing shouldn't be a problem since it's not difficult.

[@stillnotstill]

Good comment! One addition: doctors are supposed to do that. Many do, and some don't, and end up telling you you're not autistic if you don't fit some stereotype. I can't imagine paying thousands of dollars for a diagnosis that going on my record could open me up to institutional bigotry like difficulties with immigration, gender transition, or adoption, and then have somebody not even get it right because they're not doing their job properly.

[@majorgeneralmalaise]

I don't really care what pick-me Blair White has to say about us.

[@manuproulx2764]

I don't even know her.

[@majorgeneralmalaise]

@manuproulx2764 Consider yourself lucky. She's a grifter, a right-wing, transphobic trans woman and an overall ridiculous person.

[@majorgeneralmalaise]

@manuproulx2764 Consider yourself lucky. She's a transphobic trans woman and a right-wing grifter.

[@majorgeneralmalaise]

She's a transphobic trans woman.

[@0.STARSCREAM.0]

Guys the woke virus hit me it gave me autism dyslexia and adhd I think it’s getting worse I’m starting to hyper-fixate on transformers pray for me 😔🙏

[@theresidentialrat]

praying you get better soon🙏 I was hit years ago and still no cure 🥲

[@timm5362]

Just gonna say it. Elon Musk is pretty open about his aspergers.

[@NieroshaiTheSable]

And also proof that "autistic people can't lie" just isn't true.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Asparagus?

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

That, and he also acts like it makes him better than those with higher support needs, while at the same time hiding behind it to excuse his bad behavior. There's a reason he still uses that outdated and problematic term.

[@timgilligan3885]

He's a car crash of a man.

[@timgilligan3885]

An electric car obviously.

[@baristaz8834]

8:34 One thing ill always remembe4 when seeing this is how someone actually made an art piece of both the guy on the left and person on the right in a loving relationship, it makes my heart happy

[@Eloraurora]

Creamsicle 2.0, lovely.

[@au9parsec]

Another factor on why some people assumes that autism is just a trend even if it's not, is because of the way the new age spiritual community views neurodivergent people, and the new age spiritual community views being neurodivergent as something special in that you have a special mission here on earth to steer humanity back to the spiritual path if you're neurodivergent, (look up indigo child in order to understand how exactly the new age spiritual community views neurodivergent people, which is of course false since not every neurodivergent person is like that and neurodivergent people can do evil too). And the fact that the new age spiritual community views neurodivergent people as people who have a special mission here on earth is one of the other factors on why some people had started to assume that diagnosing yourself with autism had became a trend even if it's not, since they feel that some people had started to self diagnose themselves with autism just to feel special since according to the new age spiritual community, neurodivergent people have a special mission here on eatth. But in a way the new age spiritual communities view on neurodivergent people is somewhat true even though neurodivergent people can do evil too and even though not all neurodivergent people are tree hugging hippies.

[@AndrewH1994]

Oddly enough, I think it can be seen as autistic people being left-wing and 'woke' is probably because the political right has become a sort of cult of "you will fall in line, or else we HATE you". And from that perspective, I'm woke as hell. The compassionate and inclusive approach shouldn't be political, but the right-wing political actors have somehow decided they want it to be a political issue that they tie their identity to. Autistic people can be all over the political spectrum from left, to liberal, to center, to conservative. I've not seen any (personally; seeing as this is an anecdote of my own experience) autistic people on the far-right advocating against autistic people's rights, or desires to be happy. Obviously we're not monolithic, and we are all individuals with different interests and ideas. I've only seen REGULAR attacks against autistic people from the current far-right political commentators and grifters, which certainly pushes autistic people away.

[@renefeijen5916]

Right wing politics thrives on splitting the population.

[@fabulousfloof3546]

My dad is probably autistic. When he was in therapy as a kid in the 60s, autism wasn't a recognized diagnosis by the DSM. Instead they just settled on the "treatment" of sending him to boarding school. When I was younger I thought I had downs syndrome, since it was the only form of developmental issues I had been exposed to. I didn't tell anyone, I didn't want to feel special, I just felt different to my peers and didn't understand why. While I am definitely more on the left, my dad has some very unusual political views. He's mostly left leaning, very conscious of the environment, but he went through quite a long phase of being obsessed with Elon Musk and his projects. Dare I call it a special interest.

[@ThroughTheLensOfAutism]

What about my case? Still no one will diagnose me. My current doctors say I have autism, but what about all the doctors who have said I do not?

[@naomistarlight6178]

When experts disagree, you have to think about their reasons and which side makes a better argument. Mine went like this: Therapist A: Not an autism expert or autistic himself, but a PTSD specialist who specialized in EMDR therapy. So, dude knew a lot about trauma but not necessarily much about autism, especially not the latest research and updated models/concepts surrounding it. He says I can't be autistic because I a middle aged woman, didn't respond to a noise in his office the same as a little boy who he knows to be autistic, where that stimulus gives said boy a meltdown and has to be turned off (fish tank filter). I am bothered by it, but I just don't say anything because 1) I'm adult and 2) I had politeness drilled into me as a kid because of GENDERED SOCIALIZATION. Therapist B: We instantly vibe like we already know each other. He is autistic and with a partner therapist helping, he diagnoses me with autism. He is an autism expert, very in touch with the latest research and updated ways of thinking about the disorder. Talking to him explains a million things I didn't understand about myself or my childhood. That's why I think I'm autistic. Because when experts disagree you realize not all of them are equally qualified for particular issues. They tend to specialize and not be great at questions outside their specialty.

[@thehollyannrose]

What I had to do was go straight to a center that tests adults and takes my insurance since either no one believed me or if they did my insurance wouldn’t let them refer me??? But since I went to the center itself and they said I needed testing, my insurance approved it lol but yeah and I have HMO insurance too

[@edwardlulofs444]

Yes, it’s so funny! But if the different opinions in psychology are obvious, in physics and math the differences tend to be more hidden.

[@neoqwerty]

@@thehollyannrose Hell, a center that tests children will also be able to give you a referral, at least in Quebec. (my social worker phoned a colleague in their building's center for neurodivergent kids, I had a 30 mins interview with the lady quizzing me on how I behaved in school and what she could do to help me. Due to scheduling SNAFUs I couldn't follow through with the consultation recommendation, but the center lady was very much able to write me a referral after I authorized her to request my school dossier and to ask my social worker for her own info on me and to refer my case to a neuropsych team to diagnose me, even if she only works with teaching kids to develop positive coping methods and to help them ease up out of maladaptive ones. (tldr: specialists who work with kids can also help if you help them retroactively analyze your child self and they can send a reference from that reasonable guess!)

[@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist]

It may be an issue with the professionals you’re being referred to. Some specialize in Autism diagnosis while others have more general knowledge on disorders as a whole. If you can, it’s best to seek out a specialist in the field if you want an accurate diagnosis.

[@RDSyafriyar]

There have been many autistic people who are leftist, but not of all them are. However, I will always see the desire for genuine advocacy of autistic people as left-leaning due to the ongoing discrimination they face in society as well as their demands to have autonomy and equal rights. I also find it necessary for free housing and universal healthcare to be accepted into society because for a developed country, the USA lags behind with all the unnecessarily high costs of medicine as well as houses becoming increasingly unaffordable.

[@HarryPotter-kb7we]

leftistic*

[@carlawilliams6730]

I think there needs to be a distinction between right-wing vs conservative, and left wing vs liberal. I see many people on this discussion using the terms interchangeably. Generally, I am not close to anyone who holds a militant "right wing" or "left wing" ideology. But I'm very happy to engage with people who are on either side of the center who are willing to look at things from different perspectives, even if we don't agree with those perspectives. I don't find it helpful at all when people "other." The irony is that a lot of liberals will "other" conservatives, whom they accuse of "othering," and many conservatives prove liberals' point when they "other" the liberals. And so goes the cycle.... Honestly, life is just so hard sometimes, even without autisic struggles, that I generally just avoid hardline left or right. I almost didn't post because politics is so divisive, and I am trying to find a community where I can have reasonable discourse. Like I've seen others post, if you don't pick a side, that's almost worse than claiming far left or right.

[@hbtried7818]

A democratic candidate for state representative sent me a campaign text a couple weeks ago inviting questions. The text described him as being against extremism on both the right and the left. I asked what he thought constituted extremism on the left. His (or his campaign’s) best example was apparently a group that had conducted an entirely nonviolent and peaceful protest on a local college campus for a cause he didn’t agree with. Extremism is when you exercise your constitutional rights, harming no one, I guess. Why am I saying this? A lot of people repeat lines about how extremism exists on both sides. However, the actual definition of extremism shifts wildly depending on who’s talking. I encourage anyone who thinks this to jot down some examples of beliefs or acts that seem extreme and really have a think about each. What specifically is so bad about this? How common is it-is it way out on the fringe, or do 1 in 10 people believe it? Does it have much institutional power behind it? Where did they get the idea? Whatever your exact viewpoint may be, it’s genuinely so important to remember that not all things labeled as “extremism” are created equal.

[@cake_zombiez]

I am so proud of my grandma for actually researching autism and supporting me being autistic my grandma is the best

[@SorcererDragon]

The threat of autonomy being taken away is exactly why I don’t want a diagnosis. I will just: suffer in silence

[@mshonle]

I think for ND people it is easier to see how gender is a social construct and that a binary outlook is clearly insufficient. (Perhaps for the same reason it would be easier to understand that animals shouldn’t be used. The social pressure to use animals is very strong.)

[@kslvmila]

this is such a good video. made me think of an autistic boy in my class who preached about donald trump, but at the same time loved plus sized activists (which from what i’ve researched, a lot of those activists are liberal lol). so yes it’s very much not black and white. it’s quite literally a spectrum!

[@Alligator40]

What about trump he preached about?

[@Alligator40]

Just asking

[@kslvmila]

@@Alligator40 that he was going to vote for trump (even though he can’t, he’s not 18).

[@Alligator40]

@@kslvmila oh okay

[@Alligator40]

@@kslvmila i never voted

[@tollpatschny3346]

1:43 I thought there was a cat somewhere near me when I heard this

[@KnifeSpoon720]

I hate that neurodivergence has become associated with leftism which is its own mental disorder. I was diagnosed autistic in 1989 under the label "pervasive developmental disorder" and trying to function in normal society has not been a cakewalk. I still lie about not being autistic on job applications because our society still low-key discriminates against neurodivergent people, especially corporate America. People with blue hair and made-up genders claiming to be autistic while shouting a myriad of probably self-diagnosed other mental disorders isn't helping anything.

[@quitethemike]

Are all autists left wing? No. My political leanings have nothing to do with the fact that I am autistic.

[@badsmilesorrisocattivo]

Yes, i am lefty and autistic

[@robinknight2251]

I am empathetic but I have the ability to turn off my emotions. If I do not check myself, I can be ruthless especially when protecting others. Yes, I am very left wing but that is because of the way my autism manifested in my body and the experiences that I had.

[@stainedglasspixie]

I've always done that and I didn't realize that was part of autism until recently.

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

$4 US is actually quite expensive for a Discord server, especially if your currency doubles that number.

[@imautisticnowwhat]

$4 is the price for joining the Patreon (so you get access to the other exclusive videos on there etc too) and then all patrons can join the discord 😊 Unfortunately it’s the lowest I can do because they take off fees etc. But they may be letting us gift memberships soon, which will be nice!

[@rae.of.sunshine15]

i'm autistic and fairly left leaning, my brother is autistic and centrist, and my mom is most likely autistic and right leaning. we collected them all! /j

[@ToyotaTom04]

I’m not a leftist. I’m not a conservative particularly either but identify more with the right than the left. I’m autistic and find zero community or belonging with other autistic people because of a mismatch of ideology

[@ChaserHati]

I'm honestly kinda jealous of autistic people who can dye their hair. I did it once, but seeing all the white things I own get stained with dye even after washing out the excess was horrible. My poor hair towel. Also the amount of time and effort that goes into maintaining the color.

[@jessicahanson6105]

What a lot of people don’t seem to get is many of us don’t even do politics because it’s stressful and and we like to avoid hateful people. 🤣

[@kingrix]

Qanon is like the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects it.

[@PossumMedic]

"why do all these people who claim they are autistic present the same way? it must be because they are *all* not autistic not because they are!" Literally what... 😐

[@The-Autistic-Strategist]

I’m autistic. I am frustrated with “woke” because it is ruining my autistic topics of obsession… I’ve been a hardcore Star Wars fan since I was 2. And I’m sad at what happened. And it’s ruining video games and more… for more info just look at Henry Cavill’s more recent arguments with Amazon about the Warhammer 40k franchise… I don’t have a problem with people who are in any of the groups that “Woke” claims to be fighting for, but I observe that they are fighting the wrong way drawing in the wrong type of attention… they are just making everyone hate and fear them… I’m all for people having the freedom to be whatever they want. But please stop ruining all the things that make my life worth living… Those who are truly autistic should understand how important our topics of obsession are for us…

[@MargoTheNerd]

You mean the female Custodes rumours? What do you have against Cavill in the franchise? On my side of the ocean I've heard nothing but praise for his knowledge of the material.. I don't understand how exactly did wokeness ruin games - I know how gaming changed but fail to see how it's connected to wokeness instead of just..money and focus on visuals instead of playability and plot/lore.

[@RosettaAllen]

I never understood the comment with Tourette's and Autism so much of the time being called "Attention Seeking" WE DON'T want the attention, we just want to live our lives. And LIKE every walk of life we come with a variety of beliefs and lifestyles, we are not a monolith, we are just people.

[@rhaeven]

yeah, a lot of people seem to think that if your behaviour DRAWS attention, you MUST be seeking attention. just plain wrong

[@natashasullivan4559]

But it quite literally is my identity... I'd be a COMPLETELY different person if I hadn't been born autistic. I'd have had fully, completely different life experiences. I would be totally different. And I'd that's the case. Then it is quite literally part of your identity. As is ADHD Also, as much as nobody in the US really cares about helping disabled people. "The left" which is now basically just... The middle slightly left .. is more likely to give any cares. So yeah, most of us prefer the party who doesn't hate us. And think alwe should either die, or work ourselves to death... Shocker.... I can't even get food stamps here where I live in Ohio. Because Ohio food stamps have "Work requirements". Which are basically only there to force people into low paying menial work. Which would have me unemployed again within not long. Things that require the social stamina that I no longer have. It's only there to push people back into the system and keep you unwell. So again, like she said. Benefits?? 😂 Can I please have them? I have my diagnosis on paper

[@facthunt2facthunt245]

You would be treated better in Britain. Our benefit(welfare) system is better.

[@natashasullivan4559]

@@facthunt2facthunt245 I'd assume there are many welfare systems better than ours. Ours isn't actually meant to help. It's meant to shame and make sure you know how bad a person you are for being poor. I mean.. our senator is JD Vance 😂 we know how he feels about poor people In fact there was just a change here in Ohio to good stamps. Making people at an even older age have work requirements too I think.

[@lh2435]

😢

[@Alligator40]

@@natashasullivan4559you know Vance’s mom was a drug addict when he was growing up

[@ThymeofGhost]

I’m autistic and have been on the left and the right before. I’m over life these days so I pro human rights.

[@FerociousSniper]

People forget that Elon Musk is autistic. I don't think the head of DOGE is going to idly stand by and let Trump's administration discriminate against autistic people. If anything, he'll probably help shed some light on the lack of awareness and support.

[@ELWest1000]

I have a learning disability (severe dyscalculia --I'm not autistic, at least not that I'm aware of--who knows, a lot of your content seems to ring a bell!), and I laughed out loud at the idea that we neurodivergent folks get things other people don't have. I've struggled my entire life to have even basic "normal" things. I'm certainly not over here getting more money or privileges. In fact, I'd love to retire, but years of underemployment due to my disability have made that impossible. So I guess I'll just work low-level jobs until I die! 😛😂🙄

[@cat-mf1sk]

Some bigots out there see the gov giving welfare and they assume all of their taxes goes to the people. When in reality disabled, elderly etc, barely get any of it. There's lot us living in poverty. i am quite slow but you cant tell me there's no loopholes in our system

[@cat-mf1sk]

Also i'm not even in the Eu or Usa but i can relate to your experience, ig it's universal (unlike our UBI) I'm sorry i hope all your needs are met :(

[@DeeTomm]

I hate how people have to bring politics into literally everything, including being different or simply just existing. Why can't we all just get along? 😢

[@CarsoDeck]

As long as conservatives and wealthy people exist, we will never be able to achieve everyone getting along. Both of those groups live to ruin everyone elses lives sadly.

[@Autistic_Goblin]

Why should I get along with people who think I and people I love shouldn't have the same human rights that everyone deserves? I don't associate with people that don't think I deserve to have bodily autonomy, sorry.

[@DeeTomm]

@@Autistic_Goblin I didn't say that at all.

[@FlyingThunderRooster]

You can thank the cancer of a Socialist called Antonio Gramsci and the Soviet Union gifted that cancer through the rest of the world called ''ideological subversion''.

[@gryficowa]

@@FlyingThunderRooster Nazis hated Marx, so connect the dots

[@zimtyy7204]

Soo for the last 3 years Anarchism became a special interest for me. I have been part of several anarchist groups since then and all of them had a very large ratio of autistic people. I can see that part of it is probably that anarchism is a radical position and autistic people tend towards those, but also it just feels that it's just a good environment for being autistic. For example everyone has like there own little version of anarchism and you don't have to conform to dogmas too much to be welcome among anarchists. Also laws are weird rules that often don't make sense and questioning the concept of laws in general is much more comfortable than trying to force other people to obey the laws that make sense to you.

[@beed2587]

Honestly the only person to decide if we have a certain condition or not is ourselves. As people, most of us will act differently around certain people, it's hard to be diagnosed with many invisible conditions. Especially since right now a lot of doctors are unfortunately really biased. When I was looking to get my POTS diagnosis my doctor dismissed me without doing any sort of testing, same exact thing when I brought up concerns about possibly being Autistic. I had never in my life spent more than 6 minutes in a room with that man. Why did he dismiss me? Because I'm a woman. When I switched doctors, she had no problem running a couple tests that proved I do have POTS and she referred me to another doctor who would assess me for ASD. If not even our doctors are qualified to decide what conditions we have, a random hater online certainly isn't either.

[@Parched22]

My sense of justice has gotten me let go from jobs when i see someone getting used as a scape goat and I stood up. I even struggled with it when I was in the military before I was diagnosed. It can be quite annoying and extremely difficult to not give in to the demand that I stand up for people when I see them being treated unfairly.

[@sircairns9487]

I'm right wing and autistic. Happy to answer any questions

[@servantofaeie1569]

Same!

[@Endwatcher547]

Same here ❤​@@servantofaeie1569

[@redderthanmisty6762]

Being autistic doesn't make me a communist. I mean... I am a communist. But not because I'm autistic!

[@edwardlulofs444]

I think communism is the highest form of government - but it’s too bad that it just has never worked here on Earth. I hope that it exists somewhere

[@rembrandttip4861]

Falling down rabbit holes and developing a special interest does help, though....

[@_____kb]

Autistic AnCom checking in. 🖤

[@Wreniffer]

commies w

[@lh2435]

We had communism in Germany. People are still really traumatised from it.

[@Wolfstone999]

0:56 I’m a plane lover

[@scdl-m2z]

AYY SAME

[@heg1098]

I've known just as many right wing autistic ppl as left wing.

[@TheManWithTheFlan]

The way I'm treated by allistic society is probably a big part of why I ended up becoming an anarchist. (A real actual anarchist, not an anarcho-capitalist.) I always though that society felt excessively rigid, hierarchical and coercive, and seeing that criticism reflected by the words and ideas of both autistic and allistic anarchists was immensely validating. Personally based just on observation, I'd say that autistic people aren't more likely to be left or right than the average person, but we do seem to be further left or further right than the average person. Not terribly surprising given our predisposition toward black and white thinking and extremely strong senses of moral conviction.

[@orcashton69]

One of the people shown on the Blaire White video is Ticsandroses, who I will never be convinced has Tourettes. She does have some illness(es), like Huntingtons (I think), but it's extremely doubtful she has Tourettes. Many people with actual Tourettes have been appalled and disgusted by her videos, which only served to make harder for actual Tourettes sufferers to be believed.

[@drugstore999cowgrl]

I was just researching about alt-right ideologies/movements that target autistic men!

[@stacydraper1001]

I love your blouse, Meg - especially as today is Black Cat Appreciation Day 😊❤️🎃👚🐈‍⬛🐾🖤

[@fleurdelalune8745]

"There is no logical reason why...these people are always woke" Blaire....... is so annoying lol Not to mention, what does faking adhd or autism even look like?? Pretending to have time blindness?? Pretending to not understand social cues?? Or having executive dysfunction? PDA?? Struggling with living in general?? Like how coukd you fake that without negatively impacting your life, unless you DO have those things in the first place????? 😭😭

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

Potential trigger? Mention of someone saying the r-word This resonates so hard with me- I was stimming around my father (he’s a big “oh that’s woke” right-winger) doesn’t believe I have it and he turned to me and said “Stop with the r-word (full word) stuff, I think this is just learned behavior.” I said “from where? No one else I know acts like me?” And he said “yourself.” Like girl what- that’s like- it coming from myself is what makes it a disorder, it’s what makes it autism! I often see a trend in those who like to cry “woke” are not as accepting of people like us and think we should just mask all the time because of our abnormalities

[@neoqwerty]

@@mspaintdoodle9989 So he used a circular argument to try to win this debate with you? Shiiiiiiit, I hope either he's a stellar dad despite that caveat or you can run far, far away from him soon if he doesn't get smarter.

[@mspaintdoodle9989]

@@neoqwerty yep, lol. He has taken good care of me throughout my life and I love him, but he is not a fun person to be around- thank you for your hope

[@fleurdelalune8745]

@@mspaintdoodle9989 Gosh that's so frustrating and enraging?? Ah, yes. You are exhibiting learned behavior........ from yourself....... It's like the answer is right there, if only people like right wingers would just. Stop and use their brain for longer than five seconds, then maybeeeeeee they could be bothered to try to understand people who aren't like them? And also understand you can't "learn" to neurodivergent, you just are 😭 I have this theory that Conservatives are more likely to be part of group-think and perceive people who aren't like them to be threats? And instead of asking themselves why, they just ostracize you and make you think there's something wrong with you. I'm sorry your dad made such an obnoxious comment towards you 🙄 You and everyone else neurodivergent are under no obligation to mask or stifle yourself to make NTs comfortable. We exist to enjoy life, and us neurodivergent folks deserve social acceptance just like everyone else ❤️

[@kaminaminami]

As a right wing autistic person i can confirm we are plenty and just as common as liberal autistic folks. We just don't speak about or politics because, especially online, the backlash is too overwhelming and in the case of my country often leads to being fired because it would give the employer a bad rap. we are just a silent group lol