The Saving the World Strategy Guide: Surprise! You're About to Be Homeless. (August to October 2022)

What I went through to make sure the world knows about community wealth

Before I had gotten my vision for community wealth in June, I had already had a trip planned for September/October to see my closest friends in the UK.

I'm a North Carolinian. But being a late identified autistic (I got diagnosed with similar but wrong things as a child), I have been in the autistic community online for a long time.

Back when the neurodiversity movement was first starting, most people in the English speaking portion of the community were from the UK. You can guess why.

American healthcare is shit, so fewer of us, as adults, knew we were autistic at the time (though I'm sure it's evened out by now, the movement has really taken off).

Anyway, I didn't PLAN to have my closest people halfway round the world. But that's how it ended up.

So off I went, leaving the growth of the company in the care of an office manager and a VA, thinking that everything would be alright.

But upon my return, everything came crashing down. There were a few hints beforehand that my former partner wasn't happy with the business I was building.

They didn't understand being autistic, and they definitely didn't seem to understand community wealth.

And I was getting close to running out of funds.

When I got back, my former partner and I had a lot of conflict. I remember one particularly emotional exchange where I was trying to get across to him how important community wealth was to the world.

I didn't call it that then. In fact, I had trouble explaining it. I could see the picture of it clear as day in my head, but I had trouble explaining it to other people. I remember for the first time in that exchange saying I would literally put my life on the line to make this happen.

It was that important for the world.

He said I could build my business, but I couldn't do it there. Despite having helped build the business that currently supported us both, I had signed my name off the company and the assets many years prior. I didn't even have one of older vehicles to my name, much less my Jeep, Dave.

So deep down, I knew with my credit maxed out and no assets, I was in a tricky place, I had a trip coming up to Los Angeles to see my aunt and a friend there. I had no idea what I was going to do.

I went to LA.