I recently learned about the serial killer Dennis Rader, who cultivated a career as a compliance officer for the local government of Witchita, Kansas. In the course of his career, he had developed a reputation for severe strictness and handed out tickets in the surrounding community over the slightest of violations.
He was described by his female subordinate, Mary Capps, as socially awkward, not inclined towards small talk, and prone to outbursts, yet very timely and punctual, always arriving at work at the same time early every morning, regularly setting timers for himself, following consistent routines, and expecting the same overbearing standards from her.
Obviously, he was on the autism spectrum. Yet he has never been officially diagnosed or described as such. One study on the "Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers" classifies him as having "no evidence of ASD."
But the traits are all there, and one which confused me for several days was his abusive strictness towards others. Of course, autists consider precision and familiarity to be cathartic, but the fact that this could be juxtaposed in Rader's personality with a proclivity for violence, largely driven by impulse and improvisation (after a cursory period of "trolling" for victims, stalking them, and sketching a rudimentary plan which was bound to run into complications), seemed to be contradictory.
But I think I can explain it now. The punishing, exacting standards autistic people can show towards others is a way of getting back at them for all the bullying and exclusion they've faced in life. Autists make for some of the most serious supervisors, hall monitors, and compliance officers, precisely because they've been brutalized all their lives for their own non-conformity, and when given the chance to turn the tables and scrutinize the conformity of normies, will take pleasure in showing them where they're failing to conform themselves. This mindset eventually leads them to idealize the torment and murder of normies, given that the ultimate conformity is apparently to suffer and die while having somebody above you take pleasure in it.
Autists are very similar in this regard to homosexuals, who also suffer from bullying in their youths due to non-conformity, and for the same reasons enjoy abusing supervisor positions later in life.
Police officers are often stereotyped in this way -- as bullied kids who now want to get back at society. But no particular demographics would seem to have more motive for this than autists and homosexuals, who, despite whatever social acceptance movements exist to make them feel comfortable, will always be scorned and ostracized for their differences. Even as society becomes more gay due to hypersexuality and more awkward due to technology, gays and autists will always go through traumatic formative years of development which will tend to make them tyrannical later in life.
Autists and homosexuals certainly share a common heritage with regard to Catholic Church, where they'd both be deposited by their families for the same reasons. Their families noticed that they were the odd ones out among the sons and were not bonding well with females, and so gave them to the Church. The autists who were (involuntarily) celibate simply because they could not socially bond well thrived in terms of learning strict Catholic dogma and coping with it, but the homosexuals who were (involuntarily) celibate only because it was not acceptable to have sex with other males and express their particular sexuality now had a cadre of choir boys to abuse. This trend continues today, and helps explain why homosexuals have a reputation for both perverting social standards and pedantically enforcing social standards much as women do (e.g. with regard to "fashion").
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