Many autistic people feel like aliens from another planet.
An autism diagnosis can provide the explanation.
It also provides an explanation for frequently poor mental health because society is more and more hostile to autistic people. There is more and more overcrowding, noise and bright lights and factual thinking and communication is increasingly resented by the non-autistic world.
To make matters even worse planning and organisation are not widely practised creating a chaotic society.
This is because those in influential positions in society are less and less likely to even have substantial autistic traits, let alone be autistic themselves. And as they’ve got all the power they appoint people like them – breeding more irrationality and chaos.
So the talents of autistic people needed to solve the problems of society are wasted whilst more and more decisions are taken by those without the factual, structured, thinking required. This in turn makes society more and more toxic leading to alarming rates of mental illness and suicide. The upshot being a life expectancy between 39 and 58 found by researchers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35833997 .
And even before dying many autistic people are doped on various “medications”, further limiting their ability to thrive. And if not getting it on prescription there is the world of “self-medication” with alcohol and drugs used to cope with hostile society.
The extermination of those different to the mainstream is a depressing feature of most societies. Here in the UK it is masked by rhetoric about “equality and diversity” - a useful agenda for many but one that autistic people appear not to be benefiting from in any way at all. Abysmal employment rates (about 22% https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/new-data-on-the-autism-employment-gap ), low life-expectancy as above, with, according to the autism research charity Autistica, 8 out of 10 autistic people having a mental health condition and 3 out of 10 attempting suicide and 6 out of ten thinking about it. (https://www.autistica.org.uk/our-research/research-projects/understanding-suicide-in-autism ).
It would appear that society sees this as merely unfortunate, even though it could easily be solved if there was any real desire to solve it. There isn’t because the people calling the shots are at the opposite end of the spectrum to being on the autistic spectrum.
Without autistic people’s full participation in society, including in leadership positions, it will never improve. It was the same for women, ethnic, sexual and other minorities.
The way I survive it is with God. Without him I would be dead. That’s why I’m doing this website. May help someone one day.