Unmasked Reality

🌑 Facing the Absurd
The world is cruel.
Violent. Irrational. I see that clearly now.

For years I tried to explain it away. I told myself there was order, that if only I pleased enough people or shrank myself small enough, I could avoid notice. But the world is not orderly.

It never was.

Camus wrote about this in The Stranger. A man who does not play along with the roles society expects of him. A man who sees life in its raw absurdity. A man who finally finds peace not in meaning, but in acceptance.

There is no grand design. No neat justice. Only how we choose to stand in the face of it.

📚 The Roots of It
Unmasked Reality does not stand alone. It grows out of traditions that shaped how I see the world.

• Absurdism: From Camus, I learned that life is absurd. The world will never offer neat order or meaning. Peace comes not from solving the absurd but from facing it honestly.
• Existentialism: Existentialists teach that meaning is not found, but made. My submission, my honesty, my daily choices, these are the meanings I create for myself.
• Stoicism: The Stoics remind me that I cannot control the world, only my stance within it. To bend but not break, to accept chaos without surrendering to it, is a Stoic strength.
• Humanism: Everyday humanism grounds me in dignity, connection, and care. Meaning is not in systems or gods, but in how we live, give, and stay true.

Together, they shaped me. But Unmasked Reality is my own.

🔎 Defining Unmasked Reality
Most philosophies of survival tell you to resist. To endure. To fight.

But resistance often becomes an illusion. Survival at any cost is not living.

Unmasked Reality is different. It is not about bending or breaking. It is about facing.

To live without illusion. To move with reality, not against it. To accept nature as it is, not as I wish it to be.

Where Absurdism accepts, Unmasked Reality stands.

Where Existentialism creates, Unmasked Reality chooses without disguise. Where Stoicism controls, Unmasked Reality unmasks.

And where Humanism connects, Unmasked Reality anchors dignity in the open self.

🌱 Living Unmasked Reality
Philosophy must live, or it is nothing.

Imagine being in a room where everyone expects you to smile, nod, and agree. The safe thing is to mask. To keep the peace.

But silence would cost me. Pretence would fracture me.

Unmasked Reality is the choice to speak truth, even if it unsettles the room.

Or picture devotion. To kneel is not to vanish. My giving is real, but so is my self. The act is not weakness. It is reality lived openly, because I give by choice.

Unmasked Reality lives in these moments. Not in grand victories, but in the refusal to lie.

🌍 Unmasked Reality in the World
The absurd is not abstract. It lives in the news cycle. It lives in politics. It lives in the way society is built.

The world feeds us noise dressed as truth. Headlines dressed as facts. Outrage dressed as justice.

To take it at face value is to fracture.

Discovering that I am neurodivergent sharpened my vision. For years, I thought I was failing. I believed the problem was me. Then I realised the problem was the world. A world not built for people like me. A world that demands masks, conformity, and obedience.

And once my mask began to fall, I started to see through the other masks too.

Politics, religion, media. All revealed themselves as man-made systems. Mostly built by men. Mostly serving men. Mostly designed to manipulate the masses into order.

They pretend to offer truth, justice, and meaning. But underneath, they are tools of control.

I know this because I lived inside them. I worked in politics. I gave it my energy, my conviction, my faith that it mattered.

Now I see it for what it is. A performance. A con. A game where votes are tokens, not truth.

To stay would have been to fracture.

Religion, I had already stepped away from, long before politics. I grew up inside it, shaped by a heavy religious family. It was drilled into me as truth. But even as a teenager, my autistic mind could not ignore what was plain.

It was built on the words of men. No fact. All fiction. At best, a story to tame fear.

I wanted to believe in spirit, in the afterlife, in something more. But now I do not.

The world is absurd.

These two systems once held so much weight in my life. Now they hold none. Their absence leaves space.

But it is not emptiness.

What fills it is my own way of living. Unmasked Reality. Not politics. Not religion. Not illusion. Just the daily choice to face truth as it is.

⚖️ My Answer to It
The world will never hand me meaning. Absurdism showed me that.

But out of that truth, I choose Unmasked Reality.

It is not a borrowed theory. It is the way I live. The name I give to standing steady in a world that makes no sense.

Not to resist. Not to force. Not to pretend.

To face.

When I live as an autistic man, it means refusing to hide.
When I love, it means caring openly, not at the expense of my truth.
When I give, it means giving by choice, not by disguise.

Unmasked Reality is not survival. It is not endurance for its own sake. It is the choice to live whole, open, and unhidden.

Even when the world is absurd, cruel, or indifferent.

🧠 Autistic Insight
My autism sharpened this lesson. I spent decades masking, playing roles, pretending to be fine while I was burning inside.

That was not resilience. That was erosion.

The truth is that the world is not designed for people like me. It demands masks. It punishes difference. It rewards conformity.

The pressure to hide is constant.

Unmasked Reality is my refusal of that demand. To live in truth even when it costs me. To face reality even when it cuts.

Now I look for alignment instead. Not perfection. Not pretending. Alignment is when my inside and my outside match. Reality is staying with that truth, even when it hurts.

🪞 Submission Through This Lens
Submission is where I live this most clearly.

I give myself over, but I do not vanish. I obey, but only in truth.

It is not weakness. It is not disguise. It is Unmasked Reality lived through devotion.

🔥 What I Refuse
Unmasked Reality is not endless niceness. It is not saying yes when I mean no. It is not silence in the face of cruelty.

Those are fractures. Those are survival, not living.

To stop being nice, and to choose kindness instead.

🌊 Why It Matters
The world will not soften. The absurd will not resolve.

But I can still choose how I meet it. I can stand in the glare of it, as Camus’s stranger did, and refuse to pretend.

And that means I will not hide who I am. I will not apologise for my difference, for my submission, for the way I live and breathe this part of myself.

To silence it would be to fracture again.

Unmasked Reality is the courage to live it openly. To face it. To stand whole.

Even when the world would rather I stayed silent.

🪶 My Reflection
Absurdism, Existentialism, Stoicism, and Humanism each left their mark on me.

But Unmasked Reality is not borrowed philosophy. It is lived. It is how I take those ideas and make them my own.

It is how I face the absurd without despair. How I carry my identity without shame. How I live as an autistic man without masking.

This is my way of standing in the world. To face it as it is. To live openly. To remain whole.

To keep giving, even when the world does not understand.

If this sparks something in you, I love talking about these ideas and philosophies. You are welcome to get in contact with me.