I have an autistic cousin who is more sheltered than cobes but now at 34, he's a neet. Oddly enough, his parents made his autism/aspergers his entire life. My cousin, like cobes, ALMOST escaped it in his 20s when he had a job and a bit of a social life. But then his family moved and took him with them. My cousin got into a car accident and he relapsed and is now a 34 year old shut in neet. Honestly hes just like cobes except that hes straightedge.
On the flipside, my college roommate was pretty autistic. Probably... 70-75% of cobes' potency. He had plenty of weird delusions like cobra (anime powers instead of chi balls, opening naruto gates, ect) but he wound up graduating college, got a job in IT, worked in it for 10 years, then went ahead and got a job in a hospital IT dept, and is making well over 60k a year. Everyone knew he was an odd duck but we rolled with it and he's a fairly normal, weird, anime nerd in his later 30s.
You CAN make something of your life if you dont lean on crutches all the time and cope.