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Using autistic as an insult, the same way Joe Rogan wants to use the aforementioned slur, is absolutely not okay.
I see the humor and the word being used as such on videos all over with the comments being positive. It's not what I do, it's what I see.
I mean, using it as an uninformed general insult is absolutely bigotry, but 99% of the time when I hear it used as a pejorative against specific behavior, it's always used for behavior that is... well... kinda' autistic by definition. Like the behavior would be cited by a psych as evidence for being autistic.
Does that make it OK to use for every concerning behavior? Certainly not. Though in my experience it's used more as a direct clue that someone is behaving very abnormally and may want to introspect.
... Though that said, I don't hang out with teenagers or immature twats, so maybe they're slinging it around like 2000's teenagers slung around "gay" as an insult...