It's not about how hard you work. Or how much you study.
To win promotions and get better opportunities, you need to be promoted by others who already have opportunities and money.
Those are not awarded on merit - they are awarded by social relations.
As a neurodivergent, you will never forge alliances with those in power or those who can promote you beyond anything other than shift manager at Starbucks or McDonald's.
It's a prison made by normies - for normies. You cannot escape it as a non-NT unless you make massive amounts of money through investments, which is completely unrealistic for 99,99% of the population.
Being neurodivergent is almost the same as a death sentence, it's a poverty trap. In fact, 86% of autists can't even get hired at all let alone get promoted to better positions.
Only 14% have jobs at all!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/86-of-adults-with-autism-are-unemployed-this-job-fair-aims-to-change-that-1.5089780The cards were always so massively stacked against you, it cannot be said it's your fault at all. You can only curse or blame your parents for giving you these genes.