“…Since Weizenbaum's days, like with broader cultural robot/autism tropes, mechanistic characterizations of autism in HCI have become diffuse, lacking an identifiable origin. The prevalence and staying-power of this trope in HCI are evident in numerous repetitions of the claim that autistics "have a natural affinity for technology" (Boitnott, 2012;Caria, et al, 2018;Dees, 2021;Elliott, 2017;Frauenberger, et al, 2015Frauenberger, et al, , 2013Frauenberger, et al, , 2012Guldberg, et al, 2017;Lavian and Alshech, 2015;Majeed, 2017;Shamsudin, et al, 2021;Menzies, 2011;Navedo, et al, 2019;Newbutt and Bradley, 2022;Valencia, et al, 2019) [5]. Few citations for this phrase (if any citation is given) provide supporting evidence.…”