Questions: Education & Career

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I am sick and tired of being infantilized as a young, childless, white autistic man (in my early-mid-20s). My personal and financial experiences are tougher than literally 95%(maybe even more) of people in my age range of 18 to 24. I still have no drivers license (let alone proof of insurance), I only work "part-time" (barely), I get paid literally $10 an hour if at all [x], I'm on SSI and that's my main source of income (the other being EBT food stamps), I go to school (take online classes for Web programming) part-time on Mondays and Wednesdays and do homework (thankfully it's not all that hard, unlike say English or Math)

[x] (the pay frequency is not consistent... it's $5 below minimum legal wage and in California... but my boss and my mom buddied up and agreed with just paying me $10/hour because of my other sources of income... one of my job coaches was shocked about it and thought it was against the law and I almost had an outburst about that.. but really there's nothing I can do about it besides quit, and my boss doesn't care about me either unless it's regarding a very situational moment, yeah he claims I'm his favorite employee in front of everyone but his actions show otherwise...)

I literally left the job coaching program designated for clients like me with disabilities because it turned out to be nothing but a joke and oftentimes traumatical for the clients with disabilities (I only got two jobs via that program and none of them worked for me personally, although I did return to that first one).

I would prefer $25 an hour as that's what most neurotypical people in their 20s are earning, but $20 is fine as long as it's a full-time job...

The academic intelligence is given far more importance than any other intelligence, I believe. What do you think about this?

I mean from a career's point of view.