Can’t disagree, as someone who suffers in the US South.

Getting any sort of help is a pipedream. Once our support systems inevitably fail us, we are basically fucked.

Sorry it seems you’re just getting a lot of generic advice and the usual “bootstraps” bullshit.

Unfortunately, the reality is that for most people with autism and support needs, unless you can find a unicorn position, you’re kinda just fucked and have to settle for something that you’re not a good fit for and will be detrimental to you’re mental well-being in order to simply survive our sick society. There isn’t really any sugarcoating it.

Guess I’ll just die then. I’ve tried adapting to it and it is literally killing mentally to do so. I’m done adapting to a sick society.

There is vocational rehab which is supposed to help but good fucking luck being approved for access to the service.

Masking is the absolute bane of my existence. I can’t bring myself to do it anymore. Burned myself out so much doing it for decades I lost myself. Had to mask at work then had to mask at home around the family. Basically never had even a moment where I could safely be myself without being chastised for doing so.

So now I just don’t. If I’m gonna be uncomfortable either way then I’m not going to waste my fucking energy catering to the sensibilities of assholes who would never do the same for me.

Big screen. I want to actually be able to see the details in the media I’m watching.

Also, I want to be able to put my phone down and not have to hold it the entire time I’m trying to watch a show or something.

The inconveniences of watching things on a phone far outweigh the inconvenience of just getting up to watch on the PC or TV.

The thought that crying doesn’t do anything is misguided. It actually changes a lot internally. Like, sure, it doesn’t change your material circumstances but it absolutely has a proven effect on our mental well-being and ability to regulate emotions.

It helps us to process emotions of grief and tension. It’s catharsis. It has a physiological effect on our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. That exhaustion is the release of tension that, without it, the body isn’t recovering from.

So, on a rational level, yes, crying does actually make people feel better in the long term, even if it doesn’t immediately show signs of effectiveness.

Everyday, all day.

Yet another person who doesn’t understand the basics of logic in that you fundamentally cannot prove a negative. You have to prove the positive. If the positive cannot be proven then it has to be assumed that the negative is true.

Is there proof of successful human cloning? No, thus it is assumed using basic logic that humans have not yet been successfully cloned.

A lot. Genes have a weird ability to activate or deactivate, or simply have a different effect, based on environmental factors.

Look up “Epigenetics”.