I keep contact with people outside work to a minimum. Family included. I dont smoke pot. I eliminated all of my social media accounts a few years ago (occasionally comment on reddit though) Once the isolation became my reality and I realized that nobody out there knows me better than I know me, I began to view my own life from an unbiased third person perspective and just like that, I feel genuine happiness and contentment with my life. I love myself and celebrate every bit of small progress I make in real world social situations (mainly at work) The most important thing I taught myself is to let go of everyone else. My parents, my sister. They never understood me anyway xD who needs em'