Thanks for the clarification.
The last sentence of the article however, shows why that's not much of a consolation:
In other words, it is activist hedge funds and modern executive compensation practices — not corporate law — that drive so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation; mistreat their employees, customers and communities; and indulge in reckless, irresponsible and environmentally destructive behaviors.
I rarely see this being mentioned, but vitamin B12 deficiency is a thing that certainly doesn’t help with mental health. This is fairly prevalent in people with any type of gut problem. And seeing as gut issues and autism are strongly correlated, I would suggest you look into that.
And the arms race.
As for booting from USB stick: use Ventoy for that. It allows you to copy any number iso files to the USB stick and boot from any iso file that's on it. No need to go through the hassle of writing an iso to memory stick over and over again.
Use vimtutor. It comes with vim and teaches you to the basic vim commands from within vim.
And don't worry about exiting vim, that's lesson 1.2 :)