Facing the real world.

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craft brewing, vintage machine mechanics, vintage furniture repair... all these things generally come with the expectation that the NT's will darn well wait on the eccentric person to complete the task in their own good time.

The shop I worked at kept a guy's prized motorcycle for nearly 2 years before he came in and got all bejiggity, and then only because he saw no one had even begun to work on it. When I began working on it, he mellowed out and would come by for weekly progress reports that tapered off to "call me when it's done."

People will exercise patience if you can deliver something very few others can. Not only that, but it will become a bragging right that you're working on their bike, brew, furniture, metal sculpture, or whatever. They'll proudly proclaim how long it took and be happy to pay you.
My tattoo guy has an unheard of waiting list of 6 months to a year. He charges a more than market value fee. But his work is world class.

That is the key to it, I've found. I have combat related PTSD, so I get what you mean about overdoing it and snapping a neuron or three.

Take one of your interests that keeps popping up over years, whatever they may be, and find a niche you'd excel at.
The pressure is much less when you look at something and say "Yeah, I got this." than "oh crap, I hope I can do that!"

It does, however, take years to pay your dues and develop that level of skill.
But then you can tell people to get lost if you don't like their attitude or all the noise they bring into your space/life. Which is very nice.

You start with google and/or barnes and noble. Depending on where you live, you may be able to pretty easily meet people interested in starting something as cool as a microbrewery, especially approaching it from the idea of eschewing the traditional work world to bring strange, even disabled, but highly capable people together to make really great beer. People get excited about beer.

As for someone to do your finances, you could probably find someone on here who struggles as much as you in a traditional workplace who could do a small business' finances while bleeding out from a gunshot wound. =P

And I know you struggle because of your psychological issues. That's why most of us are here. That does not, however, make you useless. I know what it's like to feel dead inside. I'm currently living in my chain smoking father in law's living room with his mean, senile mother in law who bounces back and forth between accusing my wife and I of insane things (like having sex on the futon in front of her!! !!) and crying because she had no reason to blame us for things she never even told us she was blaming us for after moving across the country for a job I didn't get during a serious falling out with my parents who are a bigger psychological mess than you and I put together (if only on the principle of their denial being less healthy than accepting your problems). My brain on and off does feel like it's dying because I have no sense of an acceptable grounding in life. My psychological state of constant thin ice maintenance does not resemble the psychological state of living. But, when I get a good night's sleep and don't have to deal with my parents trying to hurt me to save their own self image, I make myself turn out 1000 words in something I'm writing. Because the only way to get out of a mental and life place this bad is to keep some degree of momentum going. You'll never feel enough better to take bigger steps, if you don't fight through some of the worst to create some sort of momentum. If you can create a momentum, the drive will come because it feels good to do something meaningful. You just have to look to the potential of the future instead of the past. We are alive. The past is dead. For living things, there is only the present and the future and potential.