How Do I Become Less Obedient? | Noncompliance is a liberating social skill - but it must be developed

Fascinating discussion - how can an autistic person (or anyone else) with a crippling fear of disobeying authority and breaking rules work their way up to shoplifting and other acts of anti-capitalist civil disobedience?

Here’s how: dwell in the discomfort of public rule breaking until it becomes routine. And you can do it too:

Be a bit unusual on purpose. Do something harmlessly forbidden. Disagree with someone openly when you’re supposed to be polite. Bring up a bizarre conversational topic out of left field, simply because you are interested in it. Expect to feel strange about it. And then do it anyway.

After you’ve practiced dwelling in increasing levels of discomfort, then you are ready for the second step of becoming ungovernable: learning how oppressive systems enforce the rules (and often, fail to enforce the rules), and then exploiting these patterns for your benefit.

And the final lines:

And so, Anon, I hope that you can get well practiced in the skill of defiance. In order to get by, many of do have to learn how to steal our food, upset our loved ones, and be guided by a principled spirit of noncompliance. The more of us learn to live by these skills, the stronger we all will be.