A conspiracy theory about Hans Asperger

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Hans Asperger was a Nazi scientist who executed around 800 of those who he diagnosed. I will not say any more because I do not want to disturb any Holocaust survivors, but you can read his article on Wikipedia.

The thing is, it concerns me that we are using the name of a Nazi murderer to label us. Moreover, it surprises me that we, especially qualified psychologists are taking in the words of a Nazi. What if their plan was to label intellectuals intentionally for execution? Don't forget that Hitler was strongly anti-intellectual (in fact, some historians say that the reason he hated Jews in the first place was that there were many intellectuals among the Jewish population). Should we trust the words of a mass murderer? This is like trusting believing Hitler's racist proclamations about Germanic people being superior to everyone else. Don't forget that many people with Asperger's have high intellect, creativity, and ability in diverse fields. What if their plan was to murder and eliminate all of us from the world? No one would oppose them because of them labelling us as "mentally disabled" (don't forget, part of the Holocaust was about murdering all disabled people).

What do you think about this? Do you believe this? I know it sounds crazy, but you can make your own judgement in the poll below.

Well, since Aspegers is no longer a diagnosis, I don't really see your point.

/Mats

Thanks, now my anxiety is through the roof. I hope you're happy.

One thing I hate about this site is when people make threads about people with autism being executed, mass murdered, ect.

I've got the sh***y Asperger's s**t on my medical records, should I have this taken off so that I don't get tracked down by Nazis and thrown into a gas chamber or concentration camp?

You should add a trigger warning label to these f*****g threads.

There may or may not be some truth in this but either way I believe that Asperger Syndrom is a valid diagnoses or at least used to when it was still in the DSM. Lots of various mental & physical diagnoses have a bad negative history of how those disorders 1st became known & diagnosed but the people who are suffering with em still need support & understanding regardless.

I care not for the doctor who named Aspergers and what he did or did not do.

The label served my purpose as did some other aspies who know how to make of it -- that's all that matters.


Those who can't and don't know how to...
Why care? This is 2021, not 1930s.

I see this issue more of an individual wise attached associations issue towards a label that had slapped on their record.

Westerners seem to be more prone to it because of the association with a certain Germany political party that started a war.
Not knowledge, but shock value and held tightly onto it.

Anyone else could care because of that around a diagnosis label -- like plenty of things are. I don't.

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I've been aware of his Nazi links for some time now.

I think people need to keep in mind the time period he was in. Even the most moral would waiver with the Nazi war machine holding a gun to your head.

Whether I'm moral or not I don't know, but even I know I would throw any random person under a bus to save my own skin if the time ever came.

Clearly you haven't read any of Asperger's work. He made the point that what he called "autistic psychopathy" (essentially "autistic personality disorder" in more modern terminology) came with talents and strengths, and there's a definite undertone of "don't kill these ones, they're useful". He was trying to save us, not get us killed.

How would someone get hold of NHS records and use them as a kill list? Do not worry, Joe, it's not possible.

But I do think this question is interesting. Many buildings have been renamed recently because they were named after slave traders. Should Asperger's be called something else in the UK? I would be ok with that.

Even admin staff are being tried for helping the Nazis these days. Hans Asperger definitely played a bigger part than them.

It's not a Wikipedia conspiracy theory. Here's a respected article in Nature about the subject. Simon Baron-Cohen

The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion

agrees with the OP.

Crypto-Nazis do exist. Political elements. And in the future it could happen. A new dark ages. That being said. its pointless and self defeating to fear something that might happen in the future, instead of enjoying the now. Franklin Roosevelt was right.