Does your autism impact your political views?

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Makes me more anti more Anti Trump because his personality type has harmed, frustrated, and annoyed me.

Makes me more anti-censorship because as a minority I understand we are more likely to be the target of it.

Makes me more Anti woke because
1. See censorship above
2. Their emphasis on identity politics harms those who "think differently"
3. Holding people to account for the most minor things and verbal slipups is bad for people prone to these.

While we are not the prime target of the anti-woke backlash that can and probably will change

I didn't vote yes or no. First of all I don't have Aspergers. I have Moderate Autism. Secondly I don't know if it "affects" my views because my views come from who I am. That includes my autism, my ADHD, my trauma, my finances, and all parts of me, but those things are all connected and can't be evaluated separately.

I don't follow organised politics or affiliate with any prescribed dogma. My values are consistent in terms of personal liberties and freedoms, but I don't know anything about the financial or economic aspect of running a country so I can't comment on that. I certainly don't believe in higher taxes, because I'm already in one of the highest-taxed places on the planet, with the highest cost of living of anywhere in the western world.

When an election approaches I look at each party's platform with fresh eyes to see a) how they will support persons with disabilities b) how they will support single parents (especially disabled single parents with disabled kids), and c) their budget including the prime rate and defence. I guess you could say that "Disability Rights" are at the forefront of my concerns so maybe that means my autism does play a role, but my status as a disabled person is because of trauma and strokes, not ASD. I also have a permanently disabled child.

The rest of what politicians discuss in debates is usually BS and I don't believe a word of their promises anyway, regarding the environment or healthcare. My government just decided to cut $21B out of the healthcare budget and of course they didn't announce this prior to election.

It's all a shite-show as far as I'm concerned, with political patronage, lies, and corruption. I will always vote, because people died for my right to do so, but beyond that I don't expect much to change regardless of who is elected.


* No I am not American, and I don't give a rat's arse what's going on there.

Yes.

I’m more bitter, since the family disowned me.

I’m extremely isolationist. This entire country can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.

I’m pretty much a pariah, since my physical and mental has gone downhill. The German hymn Komm, suesser Tod’ is the best music I’ve ever heard.

I think it impacted my political views before I knew I had ASD. My bad experiences in the world of work needed some explanation, and the most plausible theory was the socialist one that said the whole wages system was a cruel, unequal bargain for ordinary people. Not that I've embraced capitalism since my diagnosis. I've just accepted that there was more going on than I'd originally thought, that sometimes I got into trouble because of misunderstandings that arose from my undiagnosed autism.

I can see other reasons why ASD would affect political views. We commonly like order, which might make some of us favour a somewhat authoritarian society (though we also often have trouble with authority figures, which complicates that issue), and then there's the "pathological honesty" thing that might make some of us more hostile to the free market (which is rarely very honest) and to politicians (also rarely honest). I feel strands of those things running through me all the time. I get surprisingly annoyed when motorists bend and break certain rules (such as pavement parking), I tend to view authority figures primarily as potentially jumped-up as*holes, and I often vehemently attack traders, advertisers and politicians for pulling dirty tricks and for being so shamelessly insincere.

Diagnosis hasn't mellowed me very much in those respects, or changed my opinions a lot. I tend to think ASD just gave me ways of seeing a bit more clearly what's going on. I suppose I'm less violently opposed to capitalism, authoritarianism and dishonesty than I used to be, but I'm still strongly against those things.

No, not directly anyway. I lean more conservative and rightist, but I am starting to sympathize with minarchy. I just think polities should be split and scaled down. You can live in your ultra-liberal society community and I can live in my more conservative-leaning community.

The problem we have today is one side calling the other evil. I don't want to force anything onto you, in reality I just want us to be left alone.

I honestly don't know. What do you guys think? I can't stand the right but I also can't stand the 'woke' left. My views align more with the left because they seem more altruistic to me and their views better help support human survival. Our culture is broken and I just wish people cared more about each other. I think my views are pretty 'normal' though, because this is what reasonable people who aren't deeply invested in politics tend to believe. That's what I think at least?