Tl,dr: Musk is irratic and has no plan, per a journalist who has covered him for five years.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The fact that he’s trying to find a “cure” for ASD (using the most extreme methods) makes me think he’s a self-loathing autistic and a turncoat who deserves no praise from others with ASD. I certainly don’t respect him.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe.

      I didn’t know I had ASD until I was an adult. Growing up I just knew I was weird and different and strange and nobody liked me. I didn’t know why, I just knew I was doing something wrong and I simply wasn’t “normal”.

      I would have given literally anything to be neurotypical, for a very long time.

      When I was 19, I got formally diagnosed. For a few years after I was still hoping that it would somehow be “cured” and one day I could be like everyone else. I dunno if that made me a turncoat; just someone who didn’t accept who I am.

      I’ve since come to terms with it and accepted that it’s an intrinsic part of me and that I wouldn’t be the same person if I didn’t have ASD. Like I can imagine what my life would be like without depression; I can’t even think about what my life would be if I was neurotypical. I’d be so completely different that I basically wouldn’t be “me” anymore.

      But I only got to that level of acceptance because life worked out for me; I learned how to effectively mask, I have a good-paying stable job in my dream field (AAA game development), a significant other, and even a couple friends.

      From what I can tell, Elon may have money but he’s miserable. I can see a world in which he blames ASD for his misery (like I once did), and I can see how wanting to “cure” it makes him think that maybe he’d be happier. That’s probably why he’s killing monkeys with brain chips.