Friedrich Engels wrote "The Origin of the Family", by the way, not Marx.

I don’t disagree with your points on alienation, the abstraction of labor, or finding authentic connection through physical craft like leatherwork. That’s all real, and it affects us heavily.

But insistently reframing an offhand vent about the exhausting, arbitrary social scripts of life into a lecture on historical materialism is over-intellectualizing the point. Yes, the economic base influences culture, but neurotypicals didn't need a bourgeois mandate to invent confusing social etiquette, ambiguous conversational games, and masking.

Not every expression of neurodivergent burnout is a dialectical thesis waiting to happen. Sometimes people are just exhausted by the daily theater of "how you're supposed to do life," and you don't need a reading list to validate that feeling.