Changing career to suit me

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Now that I have been diagnosed with AS I can finally tell myself that it is ok that I cannot handle a job with a 40 hour work week in a workplace. I am hoping to get some career ideas if I explain some things about myself on here. I am a 25 year old female and I live in New England outside of a major city. My time spent running a small business, bookkeeping, marketing, interacting with clients for a very short amount of time at once, making calls, solving problems creatively could be useful in other ways now I hope. I entered a university right after slacking through high school into their chemistry program. I am strong in chemistry and biology but not physics. I do not mind if my work is repetitive. I am a good writer but I am very shy with sharing my opinions with strangers. I cannot be yelled at or blamed for things in a less than sensitive way. I just need to be told what is wrong with my work and I am more than willing to fix it and apologize. I can handle deadlines if I am given proper time and not surprised a lot with extra work. I need an option to work from home possibly on certain days or something sort of lenient with days off. I don't miss work a lot but if I need to stay home I need my boss to be understanding. I am a calming person to others, I could possibly go into the psychology field but I don't think I could be a therapist. I can travel possibly but not often. I have no degree but the university I was at does seem to have a great program to aid with learning and other difficulties.
Thanks!

If you live in New England with the skills you describe, bio, chem, writing, please consider the program at Augusta University of Maine, it's a two-year degree for a medical laboratory tech and the jobs are very plentiful in New England, especially Maine and Massachussets. I will need to leave my industry due to physical problems in the coming years, it just happens that restaurants literally break your back eventually. So I need a sit-down job that suits me and the program in Augusta is competitive but I've never had trouble gaining admissions to colleges through my essay writing skills (which you mention you have). To get into this program you have to write a very good essay, have a 2.5 GPA and have taken some of the basic sciences in school. Google clinical laboratory tech Maine program and it will get you the page.

If you find programs near you, those are fine, when you said "major city" it could be Boston, Portland or Providence... not sure what is around in other states. I live in Maine.

Thank you I'll look into that as a major and see what it entails.