>>82852281
>you have a label of "autistic" that you can use as an excuse for your eccentric behavior in public
that's what i do now, fuck masking it's so fucking exhausting it made me want to kms for the longest time. i quit my job the moment i learned that i have indefinite government aid thanks to my diagnosis. yes i live in poverty now, i have to go to the food bank and i can't afford any luxuries, but it's still miles MILES better than bothering with the clown circus that is society.
but yeah in a way i am glad that i was diagnosed later, because if i was diagnosed early then i wouldn't have been as disillusioned with society as a whole. they would have made me believe that i can integrate somehow, but i now know better, you can't. the only way i can make money or find happiness is through my own doing, no one else's, otherwise it feels forced and it's exhausting. that's why nowadays whenever someone bothers me for any reason whatsoever, i just tell them "i'm autistic, fuck off, and i have the receipts to prove it". works every time, even my family leaves me alone now and aren't harassing me to get a better job and have kids. fucking piece of shit drones i swear to god. i'm getting closer and closer to unlocking the secret to true intrinsic motivation, and once i do then i'll enter the perpetual flow loop of action that i'm craving.