Autistic teen’s fantasy world mistaken for reality

Philosophers and Psychologists have historically used rather deep analogies to try and explain phenomena. This is still happening in academia. 

Depression is a natural response today. The world IS unusually cruel, overwhelming. Everywhere there ARE messages sent to young males and females: kill yourself. You'll never amount to anything. If you cannot OVERNIGHT become skinny, rich, magical, a sensation, if you cannot summon a thousands of "likes" or hit this ridiculously high standard you are worth-less, worth-nothing. You should just pack it in. You are nobody. 

It's everywhere. He's not imagining anything. He's not delusional - he's using this rich imagination in a context we see see every day in the media to try to make analogies to what is happening around him. Yes, that imagination can get out of control. The question is how to arrest it?

Call it out. Pull everything out of him and like a professor with a wand. Encourage him to channel it into words, into art, into some kind of Form. He can see a system, but he doesn't have the language or the sociology degree or the philosophy of ethics to apply to it. Help him get there and if the drugs are in the way, help him off of them. I'd recommend small rare doses of anti-anxiety medication as the problem can most of the time be our Gaba resistors aren't enough to match what we need. 

His entire world is in his Laptop/Phone.

Could it be that he was sexually abused? Most talk like that initially stems either from Sexual Abuse, or Mental Torture; caused by an indifferent system.

Plus, School is not the right environment for children. It puts undue pressure on them to be perfect. When they don't match those standards, they have an axe to grind. 

I’m pretty sure he’s not experienced abuse. However, school was miserable for him. He’s at college now and enjoys it. 

I’m pretty sure he’s not experienced abuse. However, school was miserable for him. He’s at college now and enjoys it.