How bad does it get?

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So you've just given up on trying to get somewhere in life? Doesn't that bother you at all? The fact that you're content with just sitting on your ass, taking whatever life gives you without aspiring to something greater? I mean, fine for you if you think that life is just one big rat race, but that's really just life. You can't expect to just be handed everything. Some stuff you just need to work for, that's what the world is about. It's an NT's world, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Curiously enough, what kinds of experiences caused you to think this way?

I moved out of my parents house at the age of 22 just last year, but for 2 years before that, I had a full time job and was helping pay the bills.

I'm living on my own, but Aspie style. I work from home providing geek services remotely, and get work via email. So my social skills, eccentricities, and sensory issues never come up. Through a combination of a lot of dumb luck and the stubborn, obsessive pursuit that Aspies are known for, I created a workable lifestyle. But it is not understood or accepted by the NTs I know.

That doesn't matter to me. I never understood why people care about the things they do. I didn't know what a GPA was in high school until some grabbed my report card from my hand, and to his horror discovered mine was above his (he had assumed otherwise). I didn't understand college majors or the concept of a career, and relationships are still beyond my understanding, though I did have a few before realizing I was too inept to succeed in that area.

The one way AS is getting worse for me is that I am falling further behind socially and in other ways compared to age-equivalent NTs. But I enjoy mostly manage to enjoy my life, though I know it does not resemble what most others (NTs that is) would call a life.