Has your autism influenced your politics?

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Without much certitude it has given me my aptitude (by unconscious recognition) to repudiate political, scientific, religious and ideological group think (A first sign of this my hatred of teamwork and disdained conforming to the intrinsic thoughts of others); it has also played a role (like in most autistic people - not to insinuate autistic theists or former believers) in my agnostic atheism, but unlike most autistics/aspies once more (and most atheists/agnostics for that matter) I have always been skeptical all my life and was not a former believer. I have always had an abundantly exorbitant taste in fashion (despite an obviously flimsy dressing sense) and a general disparagement towards postmodernist culture (which attributed to my anti-egalitarian and socially conservative views in prospective life).

Until my adolescent years I inadvertently possessed a communist entitlement mindset influenced by my ASD (I wanted everything to be free from washing machines to cars), then I became non political until 2012 when I suddenly started to develop a paranoid conspiratorialism over crony capitalists influence over western centralized governments with the multinational pharmaceutical industry in particular (big pharma cronyism is an independent belief amongst some neurodiversity activists and most prominently the atheist and "freethinker" communities). I then started to get critical about the longitudinal effects of political correctness (multiculturalism, neo-feminism, identity politics, hate speech codes) nanny statism, Orwellianism, materialistic consumerism. the welfare state (eroding personal responsibility, breakdown of the nuclear family unit, economic freedom and the inducement of an entitlement mentality), the pseudo-individualization of millennial youth, and Western culture's ongoing moral and intellectual declension.

Subsequently, this lead me to the conclusion that the left and right paradigm was a falsifiable illusion that the two party system was dedicated to the people (in the UK there is a traditional three party system known as "LibLabCon"), they are both devoutly committed to big government, crony capitalism and collectivism (which explicates the neo-conservative RINO bandwagon) and thus altered my self perception of the world forever and formulated my disenchantment and mistrust in the atheist/skeptic communities; who as I am self-aware, are predominantly infatuated with social progressivism, collective conformity, and socialism despite it's non-fulfillment in non-Scandinavian countries (which are not socialist). They are just like any other group (including the neurodiversity movement) wanting to emit external stimuli (in the form of postmodernist doublespeak) to enhance a non-innate proclivity in your subconscious mind in order to capitulate yourself to communal reinforcement; in other words, follow the herd and believe what we all believe. I started to develop libertarian individualist tendencies in early 2013 until I finally became a conservative-libertarian minarchist in June 2014. My independent political views were are not in anyway in correlation with ASD at all.

Yes in that politics reflects my life in general in that I have trouble fitting in with groups. In the last 20 years or so most either view the world through the Fox News lens or the MSNBC lens. If you deviate from these orthodoxies even on one issue you are looked upon with suspicion because the "other side" is believed to not be able to get one thing correct and their opinion is viewed as a mental defect or a result of being dumb. Whether the rise of Sanders and Trump are temporary infatuations or permanent change has yet to be determined. Since I look at each issue independently I am all over the political spectrum. Voting is a nightmare for me in that I vote for not in any particular order the 1. Lesser of two evils 2. Third Party. 3. Write in. I have found the last two choices is the one issue that unifies both sides in disgust against me and the last choice really pisses the people who volunteer to work the polling stations on election day because so few use that legally allowed option it becomes an unexpected inconvenience and many do not know what to do.

No way. Aspergers is a syndrome, not a life style or political party.

I find it a little offensive when people say the right doesn't care about Aspergers. I am also not a poor "special guy in need" because of my Aspergers. If you saw me post before you'll have known that. And even if some are in need, I don't want any help forced on me. I guess that's why I lean a little more right. The left seems like they care more about identity politics.

having been ostracized, i identify with the underdog, so both when i was a rich doctor and when i survived on welfare, i was and am liberal.

Rationality and pragmatism part of my politics and yes it has totally influenced my politics.

I think my autism influences every aspect of my life!

Well if you count me not voting for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election because she came out as a supporter of Autism Speaks, I guess so.