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I'm pretty sure that autistic people have as little excuse for doing it as anyone else.
It is not some kind of signal that you are born knowing or subconsciously learn from your peers, and people on the spectrum instead have to carefully analyse. People know what a Nazi salute is because they are shown pictures of Nazis performing them, and told that doing this is not OK.
If there's a written Manual for Human Interactions, this is explicitly in it.
As someone who was recently diagnosed as an individual with a touch of the ism..... I think it's just an all around gross misunderstanding of the disease.
A simple rule like don't do a Nazi salute because it means you're a Nazi is incredibly easy to understand. Not doing a thing that specifically outs you as different is like a large part of being high functioning.
Understanding why any modern person would want to do a Nazi salute is much more complicated, as the belief system is built upon a very skewed interpretation of reality and social mores.