Does anyone here have trouble getting in college?

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I mean I've had the hardest time because I hate homework. When I come home from school, I've always switched off my school routine and onto my home routine. It's nearly impossible to fight homework into that routine since I'm done with school and I don't want to deal with the stress of it. I also have sensory issues and because my ADHD, I get distracted by every little thing and next to that, poor organizational skills. I also have trouble staying on task and reading out loud because I choke on words alot too. I can't take notes because my hand starts to ache, also I don't know how to take them. I write slow and sometimes I get frustrated. I also tend to get frustrated in general with school and not being recognized for my needs.

My parents have tried getting me an aide for years to help with this stuff but they say I don't need it. It's bull because its clear that I do. I mean I want to get in a good college for something I am good at like, my writing and my art skills but then I have to take primary subjects too.

I want to get into a community college but my mom worries about me not getting homework done. I don't want to have to go through what I did in high school and not getting noise block headphones or anything. It was as if I was NT and they were treating me normally. Most people always treat me like an NT and I'm not. I have a mild to moderate form of autism and I also have trouble expressing my emotions. I can't cry on cue because of frustration unless you really push me so far off the edge. I had the hardest time with high school and I feel like I'm just at this dead end because I can't even get a job I have a hard time with stress and can freak out easily.

It's hard because people don't realize this and then once I do have a meltdown, everyone ridicules me for it and I'm considered as being overly dramatic or a brat. I was emotionally abused so much that I have locked myself inside. I want to be heard but my voice but a whisper.

That's why I'm asking for some suggestions for community college that maybe I can bring up. It's to the point where now, my mom won't let me go because she knows I'll face the challenges with homework. I've pushed it so much and looked for ways but I can't even convince her I want to badly.

I mean isn't there a way to make the people at the admissions or whatever understand my needs? I really don't want to go through the hassle of general subject classes again. Nor deal with what I had mentioned in my first paragraph. I would also have trouble with the life of college too like the PSATs and all that... I mean if I could find someway to get into college another way with the nature of my disabilities... online colleges wouldn't be good for me either, considering how forgetful I am and highly distracted I can be...