What should I go to college for?

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See if your school allows high school students to take community college classes

Take a wide range of classes

See what you are good at

See what you like

See what jobs offer the most $$

Well, if you like music AND teaching/helping people with Autism or other developmental disorders, you could be a musical therapist. It's Occupational Therapy (OT) only with an emphasis on music and helping with relaxing/stress relief

Hello,

STEM! Definitely STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. For women, there are a TON of scholarships and grants if you're a woman that chooses to go into a STEM field degree. For example, I was looking at scholarships and found a ton of easy ones for cybersecurity, with a guaranteed job waiting after, for women. There was this one that required a 2.5 GPA average and gave $20,000 per year for women majoring in cybersecurity! In addition, there were a lot of grants, regardless of GPA, for $5,000 per semester for computer science or information technology.
So, there's that. In addition, while you're at it, invest with some of that money, for example cryptocurrency or into a growing e-commerce business -- you can find yourself with a comfortable job making $70,000 to $100,000 and, if you invest wisely and take advantage of all of those grants and scholarships, then you would start yourself off very financially successful, debt-free, and comfortable.

Of course, only go into a STEM field if it interests you. Do NOT do something that you would dislike doing. Just know that STEM is full of opportunity and employers are actively seeking female workers and giving a ton of opportunities.

To give you an idea of what kind of jobs you could land with STEM, you could work as a contractor for the government or as civil service. Work as civil service, and you get a lot of good benefits, including very high job security, just less pay. Work as a contractor and your benefits might not be as good and market changes might cause people to lose their jobs, but you get paid a lot more -- and of course, a STEM field like cybersecurity will only continue to grow from this point on, so it's probably pretty safe to go in as a contractor.
Oh, and I forgot to mention: many of these civil service and contractor programs will pay for you to get your master's degree, and will give you paid internships while getting your bachelor's, and again, you will have a job waiting for you with them after getting your degrees. Pretty sweet!

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jared

Edit:
I forgot to mention, a lot of Aspies go into STEM, so you'll certainly find people that can relate and understand you better like people on this forum.

Hi! I think you should maybe look into school subjects you’re good at (even if you think them boring; they might just be much more interesting in the ‘real’ world) to get an idea of what might be an interesting career for you. Fields that are related to your special interests (e.g. computer science or chemistry) could be worth taking a look at as well. Or just try doing something completely new.
Also, take a few career tests to get some inspiration or browse a couple of university websites for interesting studies.

You should do a major that offers stable employment such as engineering, IT or finance.