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"Being autistic" is not license to be a fucking asshole Nazi.
No but it can help direct you down that pipeline if you're unlucky enough to not get the proper support.
That's what originally happened with me until I got out of high school and stopped having negative experiences on an almost daily basis.
Couple more years of it and I probably wouldn't have been able to pull out of it so easily.
I mean, any angry outsider could potentially go down a dark path.
So....you're arguing that Autistic people are more likely to become Nazis? Because that seems like a stretch......
Autistic people may be at a greater risk to become used to some sense of "how things are supposed to work", which can include overreacting to the unexpected or unknown. I know that I like thinking in boxes and was accordingly susceptible to mindsets that put things in clean boxes (male and female, faithful and sinner, and so on) and it took conscious deprogramming to shake off those bigoted views.
Basically, certain autistic traits may render us more vulnerable to indoctrination into mindsets that align with the way our minds work. That vulnerability isn't universal nor unique to autistic people, of course.
Marginalized individuals, yes.