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Hitler, Trump and many other influential people are obviously neurodivergent. This type of person often cannot access formal education in the way most people do and they end up as dilettantes. Self esteem is damaged by their inability to fit into society and oppositional defiance sets in. Self awareness is often poor or non existent.
Society cannot absolve itself from a duty of care for these people. Most of them end up sidelined, in prison, substance users or in the worst cases, in leadership roles that they are unqualified and unsuited for.
It need not be this way. We should be teaching our children that it's okay to be different and we love them anyway.
Don't blame horror on neurodivergence. We have no idea whether or not they were neurodivergent. People use that as an excuse for their horrible behavior all the time (like Elon Musk, who has also never been evaluated).
You can be a horribly immoral or amoral person and not be neurodivergent.
And frankly even if he is neurospicy it doesn't excuse being a hateful piece of shit.
On paper, sure.
In practice, what is the solution for the failson of a billionaire? He's got better access to mental health care than any of us. He's surrounded by police. He's spent most of his life in the limelight, with a professional media class endlessly indulging his neurosis.
The hell are any of us supposed to do?