Headline of the Day

Neither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful People

—The Big Picture (The non financial one) on how people like Elon Musk using their alleged status to excuse bigotry.

It should be noted here that Elon Musk has never released a formal diagnosis from a medical professional, he's just declared himself that he is on the spectrum.

Also, giving Nazi salutes, or as author Amelia Mavis Christnot so pithily observes, people with neurological differences don't have to be racists, and if they are, it's because they are racist.

The differently abled can be as good or as evil as they choose. 

I've been autistic my entire life, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was 40. I've written before about how my autism manifests.

In retrospect, my autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seems obvious, but in the early days of ASD awareness, the disorder was largely considered exclusive to boys.

………

There were a lot of meltdowns and panic attacks—which for me usually manifested as hysterical crying, heart palpitations, and catatonia.

Still, at one point in my early 30s, I volunteered to establish a customer service phone line and email process for the Department of Defense agency I worked for. It took a lot of pharmaceutical intervention—Ativan—and a great therapist to clear that hurdle.

Do you know one thing I never did to cope or in response to my autism?

Repeatedly fire off a Nazi Roman salute.

(emphasis original)

'Nuff said.