Could Autistic People Help Teach Trump Empathy and Focus?

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: Trump's claims about autism deserve as little oxygen as possible, but it's been a depressing, infuriating week for many autistic people and those of us who love them.

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There's a saying that when you've met one autistic child, you've met one autistic child. I've never loved the "autism as superpower" narrative, and how it erases those with high-support needs and the challenges autistic people can face.

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Coslett's list:

A capacity for deep, intense focus
Adherence to facts and logic
Empathy and a strong sense of social justice
Exceptional memory
Joy
Love

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-28 07:38 AM | Reply

Jesus Christ himself couldn't make that fat bastard do anything.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-28 10:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Jesus Christ himself couldn't make that fat bastard do anything.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

The idea of autistic people curing a clinical sociopath is cute.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-28 10:57 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Short answer: no.

#4 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-28 04:55 PM | Reply

pathetic

#5 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-09-29 04:59 AM | Reply

British press deserve as little oxygen as possible.
They should be more concerned with their failing country and 13% PM approval than with throwing feces at others like snaggletoothed screeching monkeys.

#6 | Posted by sir_vicks at 2025-09-29 05:29 AM | Reply

#6
Sounds like the Trumpies at the Ryder Cup.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-29 05:46 AM | Reply

People who don't really know much that's accurate about the subject (including Doktor Brainworm and his boss Old Senescent) really should step back and get educated. But that ain't a gonna happen.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-29 06:01 AM | Reply

In order to learn, one must be a willing student.

The orange pile of trans fats has never learned anything unless it benefits him personally.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-29 07:01 AM | Reply

Let me guess, now that he wants to help prevent autism he is an autismphobe? Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer, those with advanced TDS like the posters here will tell us cancer is actually good.

#10 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-09-29 10:59 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer

#10 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

I'm at the edge of my seat.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-29 11:17 AM | Reply

now that he wants to help prevent autism

0 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

By being as dumb as a sack of hammers?

Novel approach.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-29 11:18 AM | Reply

What might cure a lot of the MAGA crowd is the same treatment Ace Rothstein dispensed in "Casino": hold the perp's hands down on a table, and beat the hand of their choice with a ball-peen hammer 2-3 times. Problem solved, lesson learned...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-29 12:06 PM | Reply

#13 Unfortunately those on the left are too weak to pick up ball-peen hammer.

#14 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-09-29 12:08 PM | Reply

those on the left are too weak to pick up ball-peen hammer.

I think the guy with the hammer was Robert De Niro.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-29 12:15 PM | Reply

I think the guy with the hammer was Robert De Niro.

Posted by REDIAL

His character was Sam Rothstein.

I just watched the movie again last week. Great movie! Sharon Stone should have won the Oscar ...

#16 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-09-29 12:21 PM | Reply

ball-peen hammer.

#14 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

What dark sexual significance does this have for MAGA?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-29 12:30 PM | Reply

Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer, those with advanced TDS like the posters here will tell us cancer is actually good.

#10 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

I have bad news for you you sycophantic, cultist turd.

Trump didn't or wouldn't find s^%#. Idiot.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-29 01:13 PM | Reply

13 Unfortunately those on the left are too weak to pick up ball-peen hammer.

#14 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

What a pathetic shell of a man desperate to be masculine and special.

Meanwhile he's a braindead moron easily led by the world's most obvious carnival barker.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-29 01:18 PM | Reply

This thread exemplifies the Dumb and Dumberer trope of political ideologies

#20 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-29 01:39 PM | Reply

#13 | Posted by catdog

the Example

#21 | Posted by sir_vicks at 2025-09-29 02:24 PM | Reply

Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer, those with advanced TDS like the posters here will tell us cancer is actually good.

#10 | POSTED BY FISHPUD

This is how the daughter-boning orange pedo is going about finding a cure for cancer.

Federal funding cuts to pediatric brain cancer research taking away hope' from families

www.pbs.org

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-29 02:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#22: FTA: "Each year, close to 5,000 children are diagnosed with brain tumors, which are the leading cause of pediatric cancer related death. Last month, the Trumpf junta announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these deadly cancers." m.media-amazon.com

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-29 02:58 PM | Reply

Magat scum parents of kids with brain cancer

Congrats you ------ yourselves

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-29 03:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer,
#10 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

Trump stole from a cancer charity for children and has cut funding for cancer research.

But sure. He's gonna cure cancer. Any day now.

You delusional idiot.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-29 05:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Each year, close to 5,000 children are diagnosed with brain tumors, which are the leading cause of pediatric cancer related death. Last month, the Trump administration announced it would stop supporting a federally funded network dedicated to researching these deadly cancers.

Pedo 47 cut funding for pediatric cancer research so he could give $20 billion to this freak.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-29 06:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

short answer: NO.
Because Trump, being the pathological narcissistic psychopath he is, is convinced of his own superiority on every possible subject and profession.

#27 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-09-29 07:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Wait till he comes up with a cure for cancer,

Here he is curing cancer....

via GIPHY

#28 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-30 12:16 PM | Reply

I've often thought Trumpanzee might be neurodiverse because he seems to lack "theory of mind", his black and white thinking, his hyper focus on limited subjects, his limited food pallet... among other things. Autistics are often mistaken for narcissists... and you can be both.

#29 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-09-30 11:21 PM | Reply

@#6 ... British press deserve as little oxygen as possible. ...

Why?

BBC -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate the BBC Left-Center biased based on story selection that slightly favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information. Although they have failed a fact-check, they appropriately issued a correction. ...

Fox News (foxnews.com) -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate Fox News right-biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of state propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks. While straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, it is typically overshadowed by propagandistic opinions, which earns them a Low factual rating. ...

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-30 11:37 PM | Reply