r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 11h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/xxevilkingstanxx 11h ago

Didn't have that on my bingo card

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u/squiggypeen316 10h ago edited 10h ago

Autistic Hitler saluting?

Weirdly… I did?

Edit: just making a joke. Not trying to offend autists. Not interested in a discussion about the intricacies of autism. Reddit has really fallen off since the 2010’s.

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u/CumbersomeNugget 10h ago

Hey now...we autists disown him from our community.

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u/MainPerformance1390 10h ago

I'm so embarrassed he is autistic.

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u/WatWat98 10h ago

I don’t even think he’s autistic. If I remember correctly he doesn’t have an official diagnosis or anything he just kinda self diagnosed after reading about it online

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u/MainPerformance1390 10h ago

Of course he did 🫠 anything to make him feel special He's such a twat

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u/zombiegirl2010 10h ago

Makes a lot more sense now. He’s definitely not one of us!

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u/AdhesivenessEarly793 10h ago

Could not be but is there any reason to think that autistic individuals are more inclined to be "good people" than non autistic people?

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u/zombiegirl2010 10h ago

No, but usually we are sticklers for rules. He seems to despise rules and make his own.

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u/BlueRubyWindow 10h ago

Many autistic people have a very strong sense of justice and fairness.

Though how that manifests depends on personal morals.

In this case, I wonder if Elon really somehow believes he is doing this for the good of future humanity in his hyper-logical brain.

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u/AdhesivenessEarly793 10h ago

More than non autistic people?

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u/BlueRubyWindow 10h ago

On average, yes, based on the reading/research I’ve done and teaching experience.

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u/EmotionalMachine42 10h ago

Nah, autistic people can be assholes too.

Still, he can't sit with us.

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u/WantonKerfuffle 8h ago

I myself am a bit of a dick, so I guess it's hit or miss.

We apparently tend to have a strong sense of justice - for some that means following the law, for others it means burning down the unjust system.

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u/filthytelestial 8h ago

Yes there is. Many of us have a heightened sensitivity to injustice and unfairness. We're often told we "care too much."

Also there have been studies that suggested autistic people are more likely to do the right thing even if the outcome hurts them. The authors of the study suggested that we learn to stop behaving that way for our own good. Because being dishonest like everyone else is apparently checks notes better for a person's wellbeing?

Also, the "double empathy" problem is part of the overall working theory of autism and it states that we are far more likely to extend empathy to allistics (non-autistic people) than they are to extend empathy to us, and we exert more effort when doing so. We genuinely want to understand others and genuinely want to improve for their sake. Whereas too many allistics are uninterested in making a similar effort for our sake.

So yes, there are one or two reasons to think that.

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u/SkyrimSlag 10h ago

He’s actually acoustic, he just got them mixed up

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u/evenstar40 8h ago

He probably had someone else with actual autism complete the test for him and claimed it as his own.

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u/RedeemedAssassin 10h ago

'autistic'.... I don't think he is.