A child gets a cello instead of a diagnosis, learns to perform "normal," and spends two decades getting good at it — through a needy friend, a co-founder who ran textbook love-bombing and gaslighting, and a body that eventually refused to keep up the act with headaches, vomiting, and asthma it couldn't explain. This episode traces one founder's path from masking to an autism diagnosis to a redefinition of loneliness itself: not a lack of people, but a lack of belonging — the ability to be fully yourself even when no one's watching. Drawing on customer interviews, polyvagal theory, and a hundred-year-old Jung quote that beat every modern theory to the punch, it argues the cure for loneliness was never "go outside and make friends."