And plenty of autistic people get real weird about it too. I’ve met an autistic Nazi before who was perversely interested in tracking family genealogy because that’s what he was hyper interested in. Like, he’d do family trees for other people based on snooping without them knowing about it. I’m not sure what came first, chicken or the egg, but one hand sure washed the other when it came to the hobby and the political beliefs, that’s for sure.

I think it’s a pretty astute observation at the underlying ideology at work here. Whether we’re taken by that meta narrative of self-identity or not though isn’t connected to one’s cognitive neuro-spicy level I don’t think, it’s just brain worms that’ll take root in any soil as people try to develop a sense of identity and community and aren’t given the tools to understand themselves as part of a class so instead kludge together something based on individualistic narratives.