As soon as I realized I was different back in elementary, I long to be free.
From this body and it's whining. From this mind and it's chattering. From those feelings and it's nuisance of a need.
From the actions that are against my intent, reactions that I never want to ever happen.
Freer than everyone I knew.
Everyone has ideas of what that looked like; typically it's this whole scheme of financial independence, being their own boss, being super privileged status and on the top of the system and get whatever they want, whenever they want; a very convenient living...
And I have my own idea of what it looked like; which involves more than simple flexibility, adaptability, non-attachment, with complete disregard for status and the exemption to the rules, all that mastery over challenges in varying dimensions and aspects of living and existing...
That even I can make do with any social status everyone 'assigns' me into.
Be the loser at the bottom totem pole, unnoticed and looked down by all?
I can get away with a lot of things with it than going 'higher' and aspiring to 'go higher' by 'proving things' to others.
I have the freedom to not do that.
That I also can make do with any conditions that this human vessel has or born with.
To a point that I have plenty of contingencies in mind in case of things like; permanently physically disabled or loss of senses, or being a senior alone without someone to be with...
As soon as I got diagnosed, I more or less took my own development in my own hands.
So I went through the phases of someone newly diagnosed, but with a twist;
I don't accept all that living with anxiety and all that avoidance to cope. I don't accept sensory pain, I don't accept masking, I don't accept executive dysfunction.
Not out of shame or denial, but out of sheer doubt that it 'should' be a reality for all autistics.
There has to be a reason why some autistics do and some don't. I want to be an autistic who don't.
I want to be as healthy as possible as an autistic. I want to be free as an autistic and more than that.
As soon as I realized generational and collective patterns exists, I want to be free from it as much as possible.
I want to be the one who breaks cycles.
I want to demystify things behind the veil of ignorance that so many go through so I won't drive blindly and be a subject to manipulation just like most humans.
I'm willing to play the role of a shameless fool and commit social suicide over and over (to a point that I can be immune to it) in the name of finding answers, in the name of truth.