Asperger's syndrome was invented by a Nazi, but it's not just that; it seems to have been defined as children's failure to meet a Nazi-specific ideal of collectivist obedience and emotional bonding.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1108142438110191618 …
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"he wrote that ‘the autist is only himself and is not an active member of the greater organism,’ a damning diagnosis in a context where only the greater organism mattered. "
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"Populism required individuals... who could be cued into melding into the Volk and then triggered or choreographed to swarm in one direction. Autism, by contrast, was about being unmoved, solitary in a crowd, impervious to affective communion. "
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