@undefined_variable@actuallyautistic Nobody should have to deal with life all on their own. Humans aren't made for that. But so many of us have to, and we autists more than most. It's no wonder that decades of that wears us down and burns us out.
I also did years of therapy before realizing I'm autistic, and all of it was literally worse than doing nothing. Waste of time and money and mental spoons trying to force my brain to behave like NTs, then beating myself up for never making any progress. Now I want to send letters to all my old therapists telling them they need to really learn about autism so they stop screwing up their clients with NT bullying.