Would moving to another country help?

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I'm considering moving to the UK or South Africa someday so I can have more access to my special interest. In the US, you need a degree to work at a zoo and if you work at a zoo you don't get to pick the animals you get to care for. In the UK, you can keep meerkats as pets just like a cat or dog. Yes, they are domesticated. They even look different from their wild counterparts. In South Africa, there are a few sanctuaries that let you volunteer in caring for the meerkats (not just office work, housekeeping, or educating the public or cleaning for domestic animals in the petting zoo like what "volunteering" at a zoo in the US implies..maybe it's different in other countries or private zoos but a private US zoo can't keep a meerkat). There's a place in South Africa that even lets people take meerkats home to foster. Me and my boyfriend are considering moving to South Africa someday just for that. My mom always said she wished my special interest was dogs or ferrets or something because it would be easier to find a place to let me work directly with them. My mom can't think outside the box. My mom wouldn't even let me have another ferret because they "smell bad" and won't listen to logic when I tell her it has to do with their diet and the crap the one we had when I was a kid was being fed. My mom wouldn't let me volunteer at the dog pound because she was afraid I would bring home germs...despite the fact her dogs were vaccinated. Plus, if I moved to another country, I'd be kilometers away from my mom.

You could try backpackers (or hostel? what do you guys call it?)around america to see many different cultures and people will generally be far friendlier if they are traveling

The same with booking a tour bus

Minivan camping works pretty well. Did that before. If you take out the seats behind the front row, you can fit a queen mattress. If you keep the 2nd row, a pretty short person can still sleep in the back (assuming you don't have too much luggage back there).

I like it better than a tent because fewer bug/animal worries, and no rocks under your sleeping bag.

hope was clear enough with post, if you do backpackers or bus tour bus you'll meet people from around the world

I'd like to move to Germany. I seem to suit that country.

how do you move . most autistics are jobless . what do u do . i want to move too. whats the most autistic country .

Definitely don't feel qualified to advise you, but I do like being foreign. It sort of takes off some of the pressure of being "normal" because you're going to be weird anyway as a foreigner.

I live in Southern California and have found it at least fairly accommodating to autistic people. I managed to find wonderful therapists here, but as for autism acceptance itself, it's not amazing.

I think the grass is always greener. I'm in the U.K. , part of Europe(just), it'd be no different to the USA for you I think. Some European countries are very liberal, but so are parts of the United States. If I were you I'd consider trying different parts of it.
The Pacific northwest always looked remarkable to me.