Believe it or not, I know a lot of autistic people who were and are conservative voters. They weren’t diagnosed, but this was a time before the diagnosis was widely recognized.
I come from a family of electrical engineers. My parents. My uncle. My aunt went into psychology and if you could guess why the first two guesses don’t count. My mother clearly has it. Her brother and sister clearly have it. Her brother is a cough away from being MAGA.
There’s a joke in my family. “Autism spectrum disorder? Back in my day we just called them engineers!”
My grandmother, who I never knew, probably had it. My great uncles were electrical engineers, all definitely have it. They are also life long conservatives, that if they didn’t vote from Trump I’d be surprised.
Of the clearly autistic individuals I’ve worked with, they were mostly conservative.
The link? Religion. Religion gave them all the comfort of black & white thinking we naturally tend towards. Since they’re not diagnosed, they won’t see the problem. This plays exactly into the whole goal. They aren’t part of the in group, but they think they are. Pretty much all of MAGA isn’t part of the in-group, but they all think they are.
Believe it or not, I know a lot of autistic people who were and are conservative voters. They weren’t diagnosed, but this was a time before the diagnosis was widely recognized.
I come from a family of electrical engineers. My parents. My uncle. My aunt went into psychology and if you could guess why the first two guesses don’t count. My mother clearly has it. Her brother and sister clearly have it. Her brother is a cough away from being MAGA.
There’s a joke in my family. “Autism spectrum disorder? Back in my day we just called them engineers!”
My grandmother, who I never knew, probably had it. My great uncles were electrical engineers, all definitely have it. They are also life long conservatives, that if they didn’t vote from Trump I’d be surprised.
Of the clearly autistic individuals I’ve worked with, they were mostly conservative.
The link? Religion. Religion gave them all the comfort of black & white thinking we naturally tend towards. Since they’re not diagnosed, they won’t see the problem. This plays exactly into the whole goal. They aren’t part of the in group, but they think they are. Pretty much all of MAGA isn’t part of the in-group, but they all think they are.