Autie Meltdown

Is isolation healthy? Or is the Autonomy movement a self-mutilation cult masquerading as self-reliance and self-love?
What are the patterns that lead us to reject all connection after we're hurt? What are the motives of those who push the narrative that you can only depend on yourself?
Let's vivisect a pattern you've seen before, either in a friend or in yourself. Wear gloves. It's gonna get messy up in this business.
Spoiler Alert: Yeah, it's a cult. But it's so much worse than you think.

The pilot episode of our podcast was just a video diary I recorded to get my thoughts down about some difficulties in making and maintaining connections, and how we seem to have collectively internalized some really shockingly toxic behaviors and perspectives in the name of mental health.
It's long, it's rambling, literally train-of-thought. But it is what I promised on the label of this podcast: This is how I think and how I feel. Whatever you do with it (if anything) is up to you.