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The One Big Problem With Elon Musk’s Autism Announcement Slate 1 hr ago
Over the weekend, Elon Musk used the occasion of his
Saturday Night Live opening monologue to announce that he has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. Musk claimed to be making history as “the first person with Asperger’s to host or at least the first to admit it.” At Newsweek, opinion contributor Peter Fox described it as a “small but significant milestone in the history of neurodiversity.” There aren’t that many openly autistic writers out there, and we tend to know each other, so I want to be clear that I respect Peter Fox deeply. However, I could not disagree with him more on the nature of this “milestone.” Musk’s “coming out” is self-serving and hollow, a poor attempt at laundering his image as a heartless billionaire more concerned with cryptocurrency and rocket ships than the lives of others.
Elon Musk was not, in fact, the first person with Asperger’s syndrome to host
Saturday Night Live. He did not make history or break any barriers. That honor belongs to former
SNL cast member and all-time great Dan Aykroyd, who has openly discussed his diagnosis for almost two decades, and returned to host in 2003. For Musk to say he was first to do something when he quite obviously wasn’t is entirely on-brand. In 2018, Musk enthusiastically spoke about a bold new kind of transportation: “pods” that transport up to 16 passengers through underground tunnels. Riders could access these pods through “parking-spot-sized stations.” Critics quickly pointed out that Musk was basically describing a subway.