Listen to all the positive things Sinclair, Grandin, Rimland, Gernsback said and heed their words. Get inspired by their lives. Feel good about the bright future ahead, about a time to come that allows self expression at your pace, in your words, on your time. Feel positive about the world - about India - being inclusive enough to accommodate all its people the way they are. Feel excited about leaving aside your preoccupation with your severely stunted social skills to focus exclusively on making software, reels, documentaries, music... whatever it is you do. Conclusively tell at least one person - preferably from school/ college - that it's the neurodivergence that's contributed to the making of all those films, all that music. Also that you're no longer the strange, chubby, loner kid anymore who struggled with maths and science (but was good at English/ art), and periodically lied about his grades to avoid embarrassment. That that very strangeness has helped shape all the work you've done (and are proud of, for its fierce originality).
Convince yourself that it'll be okay. That you'll be around long enough to create something memorable that leaves an audience rapt and whose understanding of life and the universe is elevated through it.
Convince yourself a life of uncertainty living at the fringes of your profession is still more palatable than a lifetime of mindless conformity to a soul-crushing system.
Stay convinced that conformity = living for living's sake.
PC: Tre Wilson on Neuroclastic
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