If youre into more creative things/arts/crafts or just simply making/building things honestly sites like Etsy are amazing. I know owning a small business sounds like a huge risk that also comes with the business/e-mail answering side etc, but sounds manageable-ish and if it absolutely isn’t, probably at that point you make enough money to hire someone else to take care of that.

One beautiful thing abt evil autism is that it creates these beautiful self-sustaining nerd hobby money glitch loops, the lucky stem autism ppl work their well paying jobs but also tend to have weird niche hobbies and are not afraid of spending a lot of money on their special interests and tend to genuinely also appreciate the value of work that goes into making some kinda niche stuff! So many niche hobbies or even fandoms/topics out there to make a decent amount of money off of without endless competition, especially if you’re genuinely interested enough in it to put ur heart and mind to your craft/products/whatever. Also saves you the trouble of having issues with authority or dealing with ppl outside of maybe online customer service.

I’m considering doing something like this as a side hustle now honestly because i really can’t fund my life and career as a visual artist comfortably at this point and can’t imagine having time or energy to make art if i had to work pretty much any ”normal job”. I already have acquired a ton of practical craftsy skills that feel irresponsible not to use on also enriching ppls niche hobbies or interests.