I wonder if this hating on autism is part of the regime's focus on loyalty. Autistic people tend to make their own plans and are much more independent. I'd never be able to follow orders in an army for example.
Whereas the current administration is all about loyalty over facts. They even make the meteorological employees do a loyalty test now so they'll follow the narrative and not the science.
As someone who’s done work with the whole spectrum of ASD: it’ll be fascinating to see if the diagnosis gets weaponized eventually. Right now, MAGA seems to still like “Hi-IQ nerd disrupters”; but the administration would be perfectly happy to sell off an ally for political gain.