But there are also those who gravitate to positions 
    of power and authority just for the power and authority. 
    They're the ones who will say "I won't respect you 
    until you respect me," and mean "I won't treat you like a 
    human until you treat me as an authority (as your better)."

    And if you haven't run into that kind yet... good. May 
    you be lucky enough to never run into them. 

No argument here, and you said it very well. The world's crawling with these creeps.

But bringing things back to the points made in the linked article, I haven't seen a compelling case made for how the recognition of such creeps is a specifically autistic trait, or how "blind" subservience to them is a neurotypical trait.