Peter Wynn
2 min readMar 15, 2023

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Here's how I see it. There's the stereotype of the autistic person who wears the same type of clothes all the time (if someone says they wear the same clothes every day, to me, that conjures an image of a man my father used to work with who used to shave, shower and brush his teeth every day, but the joke used to be that he could whistle for his clothes and they'd stand up by themselves, as he went through four sets of clothes in the four years that he worked with him. He wore the same clothes every day without being washed until they fell to pieces, and then bought a new set. But this autistic person is happy being by themselves, as we say, we've found something more interesting than socialising.

Some autistic men who are drawn to racism and sexism are isolated, but we also need to remember something else about racism. On the one hand, racism can be about a person only wanting to mix with people of the same ethnicity as themselves, but it can also be about people believing that certain types of work should be done by others because it was beneath them. For example, the anti-conscription debate of the International (White) Workers of the World, or the Wobblies, said, "Send the Japanese ... But for God's sake, don't send me." White supremacy is tied in with sexism, in that the supremacists believe that women should be subservient to men, and believe it or not, SOME white supremacists have Asian wives because they believe that they are subservient. Some of those men are also incels, a classic but extreme case in point being an autistic man who raped and murdered an Australian comedienne who was walking home through a Melbourne park.

Elon Musk is arrogant, and the thing is, he was born into a family that made its fortune from jewel mining. He was also born in a country that had a racial apartheid policy.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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