How do you people do it?

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For me, at the beginning, discovering that autism explained how my life was was a revelation. Here, a decade or more down the track, it just makes it worse. I live in a world where adults aren't autistic, they're just strange. Their own choice, presumably, and no problem of ours. I live in a world where an adult autistic, as there are so many of them around who neither know nor care for their disability, can be comfortably ignored. Someone else's problem.
The law, where I live, calls for for the able to help the disabled. My disability is invisible, and so, so am I

I think to myself: Most people are schmucks, anyway.

And I go about my business.

I make sure I don't express my cynicism to most people.

We have each other.
You are not invisible to us.

Forget about them, they are not really living.
They judge books by the cover (and people too).
They say they have friends, but, those people are more aquaintances.
I hear all the time about Neurotypicals suddenly losing all their "friends".
They have an accident, or their child dies, and all their friends suddenly vanish WTF!?

It's been a struggle for me in my adult life, but I think it ended up kind of helping me that my family didn't love me and I was out there in the world on my own. The choice was either to learn how to live independently or to simply die from neglect.

A lot of it comes down to determination. Are you determined to be successful despite your disability and despite the obstacles that NTs throw in your path for pretty much no good reason? Are you proud of what you have accomplished despite your disability? Do you have one or two people who care about you and will never betray you?

That's pretty much what it comes down to.

You have to be a friend to get a friend. You have to do things you hate to get things you want. You have to decide to be strong and then do it.

Living with autism is extremely difficult but you can do it.