Does autism determine political views?
All American autistics favor abolishing the current electorial system, and instead...they all back picking the next POTUS by the means of rigorously grilling each candidate on their knowledge of Star Trek trivia. The one who knows the most becomes the highest official in the land.
Its all in the DSM if you dont believe me.
Autism might have some effect on our political views, but not in a way that makes us all see politics in the same way.
I've always thought my ASD may have influenced my politicial views. I've never been prone to emotional contagion, so when politicians and the media try to use it to persuade me of anything, I just make for the exit door and wonder why they thought making a song and dance about an issue would work on me. And my science skills may be partly due to ASD, and people skilled in science may be less likely to jump to conclusions or get swayed by faulty arguments. Similarly, I can see through most advertising hype, which could have put me off capitalism, being so aware of how dishonest the sellers are and how little they care about whether or not buying their stuff would do me any good. And my ASD makes me a little unusual and eccentric, which has probably led to some mutual dislike between me and mainstream society, so that I tend to see the world as rather dystopian, and to think that if anybody's got it sussed, it's the oddballs and misfits.
But I don't know exactly what my political views are. I strongly disapprove of the right wing but I don't know that the left would ever make things much better, even if they got the chance, which doesn't seem likely in the foreseeable future. I sometimes think we'd get on better if we were divided into fairly small groups and stopped trying to run a whole nation under a single management. But I don't see any way of dividing people up like that without annoying them. And although I can't imagine that anything less than complete democracy in a group would be acceptable, I don't know how to keep a group fully democratic. Some people work the system cleverly and obey the letter of the rules while breaking the spirit of the rules. Dominating people tend to end up with more than their fair share of power.
Like I say, I don't think those views are particularly Aspie, but I suspect my ASD helped to lead me to them.
I don’t agree with the above.
There are many autistic white people who aren’t “right wing” in the least.
Additionally, many girls happen to show “classic” autistic features.
Actually, you usually post intelligent things.
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Where are you getting your data from?
Certainly not from the population of this website.
My answer would be: mostly no but I have seen where some here are angry at their lot in life and this has caused them to be Trump supporters, in fact some of them aren't even American. I don't envy those people but the situation makes me angry because I hate seeing those people manipulated by Trump's propaganda machine however I have no advice to improve those peoples' lives either. So I suppose if worshipping Trump makes them feel better then I shouldn't object.
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You still sort of corroborated my premise. I can sort of understand your point of view. When I was young, I was "discriminated against" but it seemed as though it was because of who I was rather than my being a member of some group. So I had trouble sympathizing with people who were bullied because they were, for example, black, because at least there were other black people they could identify with. As a consequence I had much more conservative views than I do now. It took me decades to get the full picture.
Also being Canadian you have to deal with the fact that Canada has no inspiring political leaders although many Canadians might see that as something to brag about. But I guess it's a problem if you need that sort of thing.
By "autistic community," do you just mean an organized subculture (much more organized than it is now) of autistic people (analogous to the LGBTQ+ community)? Or do you mean something like an autistics-only island?
I agree that the latter would not be feasible. But I hope a better-organized subculture is feasible -- and it would not require us to agree on everything. Like the LGBTQ+ community, it would not consist of one big organization, but rather a network of many smaller groups.
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I suspect that the attitudes you are referring to are probably a regional thing. According my boyfriend who has lived in a variety of places around the U.S.A., there tends to be both a lot more preachiness and a lot more hypocrisy among liberals on the West Coast than among liberals here in NYC.
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Short answer:
Sort of.
Long answer:
For decades before Obama's presidency, the Democrat Party was the party of the underdog. It was a party that helped the underprivileged and the disenfranchised: the working poor, the racial/ethnic minorities, the unemployed, and the immigrants (legal and otherwise). Since autistic persons are both underprivileged and disenfranchised, I can see why they'd vote Democrat. The Republican Party, on the other hand, was the party of the well-off. In the last 10 years, that changed. Today, the Democrat Party supports two polarized opposites and ONLY them: the ultra-elite (like that Hungarian banker, Mark Zuckerberg, and their ilk) and the freeloading violent criminals. The Republican Party now supports the productive workers and the business owners, who were screwed over by the scamdemic. Therefore, autistic persons today are better off voting Republican, as most such persons have a strong work ethic.
Remember: that was then, this is now! The Democrat Party today is NOTHING like it was even 10 years ago.
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Then they came for me. But by then, there was no one left to object.
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Sort of.
Long answer:
For decades before Obama's presidency, the Democrat Party was the party of the underdog. It was a party that helped the underprivileged and the disenfranchised: the working poor, the racial/ethnic minorities, the unemployed, and the immigrants (legal and otherwise). Since autistic persons are both underprivileged and disenfranchised, I can see why they'd vote Democrat. The Republican Party, on the other hand, was the party of the well-off. In the last 10 years, that changed. Today, the Democrat Party supports two polarized opposites and ONLY them: the ultra-elite (like that Hungarian banker, Mark Zuckerberg, and their ilk) and the freeloading violent criminals. The Republican Party now supports the productive workers and the business owners, who were screwed over by the scamdemic. Therefore, autistic persons today are better off voting Republican, as most such persons have a strong work ethic.
Remember: that was then, this is now! The Democrat Party today is NOTHING like it was even 10 years ago.
That's hardly my per eption of the Dems, but what ever floats your boat.
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Not so. For example, here in NYC, our Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, is a black former cop and very much a law-and-order person.
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