She determined that the movement defined the superiority of individuals concerned on the basis of demographic factors which could include their race, gender, and economic value, linking the origins of this ideology to Hans Asperger's collaboration with the Nazi euthanasia program.
[2][4][5][6] For Virginia Tech disability researcher Paul Heilker, who cited the existence of Aspie supremacism in 2012, the ideology was originally an attempt to define an autistic identity specifically by whiteness.
[7] Autism researchers Sara Acevedo and Suzanne Stoltz linked the movement to the "misuses of neurodiversity", and argued that it has its roots in white supremacist ideology, colonialism, and capitalist systems that "reinforces the archetype of the productive, neoliberal citizen".
She cited the BBC television series Sherlock, in which an unofficial Asperger syndrome diagnosis is suggested for the protagonist, who also displays characteristic behavioral traits and regularly recalls his superiority over other individuals.
[1] Twitter/X owner Elon Musk described a screen capture of a 4chan post that claimed that only "aneurotypical people" were able to think freely and be trusted with determining the objective truth as an "interesting observation".