My experience of the institutional world is that it is filled with non-autists who are emoting a lot and are trying to manipulate the world into their image rather than trying to line everything up with simplicity. It is exhausting to model and participate in. My worst fear is that when this all goes down someone will tap me on the shoulder and ask me to do a "real job" again. Not sure I am capable of re-entering the structured, timed, organised world.

Being around the institutionalized is like being on another planet.

It’s interesting in the fact, they don’t even know they’re institutionalized.

They cannot fathom how I manage to live as I do. There are very few strings in my life and to them, being so untethered is an impossibility.

Their things own them, they work at jobs they hate to support those things and to acquire more things to be owned by.

I get to show them that, once being like them. I have found a way out and they can too.

Most are too afraid to make the moves to cut the strings. To lose control. To break the programed indoctrination.

The seed is planted. They have seen proof that it’s possible. If they can get past being jealous of me for having. Maybe they can one day become jealous for the way that I got it and start on the path that will get them there.

Be a mirror