While hosting NBC’s Saturday Night Live, billionaire Elon Musk claimed he made history by being the first person with high-functioning autism, formerly termed “Asperger’s Syndrome,” to host the show. His comments were met with corrections as social media showed him he isn’t the first.
Elon Musk says he’s making history tonight as the first person with Aspergers to host SNL
— Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) May 9, 2021
“Or at least the first to admit it,” he said during the monologue. However, many noted that Dan Aykroyd, a famed SNL alum and actor known to be on the autistic spectrum, also hosted the show. He hosted the 28th season finale in 2003 and has credited his diagnosis for the positive aspects of his career.
“One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement — I carry around a police badge with me, for example,” Aykroyd once said. “I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That’s when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.”
People online were quick to call Musk out for not giving credit where credit is due. “Either he said it without doing one simple google search, or he did the search and didn’t care,” one viewer wrote on Twitter.
Elon Musk said he was the first person with Aspergers to host SNL. I don't know about hosts but Dan Aykroyd also has Aspergers. He was on the show for four years and won an Emmy.
— Steven Zeitchik (@zeitchikWaPo) May 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/scottEmovienerd/status/1391403587318714368
Three things:
1. Dan Aykroyd has Asperger's. He was one of the original cast members and hosted in 2003.
2. David Byrne also has Asperger's. He was a musical guest twice.
3. Elon needs to stop fetishizing his neurodivergence as a distraction from his crimes against humanity. https://t.co/vHZBjab88o
— Barbara Tranwyck (@OughtaBeBrynn) May 9, 2021
Lol Dan Aykroyd STARTED snl with Asperger’s, but nice try.
— Mr. Joshua’s Simondo Video (@JoshuaSimonSays) May 9, 2021
so apparently el*n m*sk said hes the first person with aspergers (which btw lets probably not call it that) to host snl and like… cool but no yr not buddy dan aykroyd was here first (also, just so we're clear, fuck el*n m*sk)
— muffled sounds of gorilla violence (@reddeadrobotnik) May 9, 2021
Tesla and Space X head stated, “It’s an honor to be hosting Saturday Night Live,” continuing his insistence on the sentiment.
“Sometimes after I say something, I have to say, ‘I mean that,’” explained Musk, since there is oftentimes little variation in tone in his speaking voice. One of the symptoms of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is not smiling or showing expressions related to humor, i.e., not laughing even if one finds something funny.
Musk’s use of the term “Asperger’s” was also criticized by many. The condition was named after Austrian physician Hans Asperger, a pediatrician with direct Nazi Third Reich connections.
Figures that elon musk would identify more with the outdated term “aspergers” (which isn’t a diagnosis in the dsm anymore, it’s all ASD, aspergers was named for a nazi that split the “useful” autistics from the rest of us, in order to save only the Good ones from the camps).
— Noor ☭ Mothsama Boat Laden (@MothraMissWorld) May 9, 2021
Re: Elon Musk, SNL
Aspergers is no longer a recognized diagnosis in the DSM because Hans Asperger was a Nazi. When most autistic kids were sent to the the gas chamber, Hans sent “intelligent” autistic kids to the Nazi’s Aktion T4 program to be experimented on and euthanized. pic.twitter.com/hD1EeRnwWf
— Dylan Park-Pettiford (@dyllyp) May 9, 2021
And some critics still could not manage to root for Musk, even with some kinship in the diagnosis. Jeremy Wein wrote: “I speak as someone with Aspergers, Elon Musk can truly fuck off.”
I speak as someone with Aspergers, Elon Musk can truly fuck off.
— Jeremy Wein (@thismyshow) May 9, 2021
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