"Aspie Supremacy" - A Deep Dive

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Don't fall into #AspieSupremacy thinking, even when it is a soothing balm for your painful experiences. If having a "super power" is what gains you acceptance, that's not real, it's ableism by another name. It's "fuck you I got mine". It's not healthy, it's toxic.
Don't be Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, accepted when he's useful and discarded for being different the rest of the time.

This is a sensitively-written and hugely insightful article by @ferrous

‘I think we can all learn something from Elon Musk: from his failures, and from the costs of his successes. Only some of that has much to do with autism, but the parts that do, provide a powerful cautionary tale for autistic people who want to make the world a better place’

https://oolong.medium.com/elon-musks-autistic-anti-patterns-5a96111ef28f

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Aspergers #AspieSupremacy #eugenics #neurodiversity #AntiPatterns #DoubleEmpathy #empathy

Elon Musk’s Autistic Anti-Patterns - Fergus Murray - Medium

Elon Musk — until recently, the richest man in the world — is probably autistic. We know this because he once mentioned he ‘has Asperger’s’ as part of a comedy routine. We know it must have been a…

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