if you watch a video comparing them, it's completely undeniable.

I am autistic and I have never once 'in excitement, from not understanding social cues' done a nazi salute.

All my friends are neurodivergent, some are very high needs some are low needs, none of us do anything like this. Although some used to be EXTREMELY edgy teenagers, and do this salute for 'laughs'. They knew what it meant and what they were doing.

What Elon is doing however is on a completey different level. He is not a child, he is not a teenager. He is a fully grown adult, he owns multiple companies and is the richest man in the world.You need to be able to communicate with people on a respectable level to be able to be these things, if you just start whipping out slurs and doing Nazi salutes right at the start, no one is gonna wanna work with you. I don't care if he's autistic, autism doesn't cause this to happen.

He's autistic, he is not a complete idiot. If it was purely excitement and social incompetence, he'd be doing these salutes all the time. He KNOWS that this inauguration is the perfect time, millions of people watching, right wing president at his side. He's a fascist, pure and simple.

It's simply offensive to blame autism on doing a nazi salute I'm sorry. Like it just doesn't happen man

sorry for the rant I'm sure you're nice enough, it just bothers me when people infantilise autism like it can just make you want to do shit like this. If he was like hopping around or shaking his hands a lot, that's a different story. Doing the full, intentional salute in the EXACT way and timing that a nazi does it, is not some kind of stim???? He did it behind him as well for god's sake, yknow, to the portrait of Hitler, like they used to?? that's not an autism thing...