Broken relationships, shattered life

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Since elementary school, I have been in and out of friendships, broken bf-gf relationships, and have lost many acquaintances. I am hopeless, jobless, and I'm about ready to crack. I don't know what else to do.
I lost my opportunity to accept a free appropriate public education - otherwise known as a FAPE - before I turned 21 (currently 22) - offered by Roanoke City Public Schools - part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Education in 2010, I quit my job training in the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services' Work Adjustment Training program, and I can barely stand to live around both my second sister and my parents while in my parents' hands since they have guardianship of me.
I have literally regretted scaring people away. With the sexually, inappropriate comments I've made towards women - let alone my own female cousins and aunts on my dad's side of the family, acting like I'm charging at people with a bayonet attached to a rifle - or even pretending to both fix a bayonet to a rifle and load a rifle - it seems like I've done some pretty terrible damage to myself and my relationships with people.
Where should I go from here? How do I get my sanity back?

The best thing to remember is that you cannot change the past.

The second part for you might be that you might should think about practice talking to your parents about being under the guardianship and how it bothers you. You may also let them know that you feel lonely and see if you could get into some counseling about all this.

Move away and start over again and hope you don't mess it up with the new people.

aunts are taboo but cousins are not.

This is terrible advice! Hvtitan08, don't listen to this.

It sounds like you have an understanding of how your behavior has been getting you in trouble and you have a desire to modify it. I don't know how your understanding of empathy works, but trying to see a female point of view while learning appropriate "scripts" to use when speaking to women could be helpful. You might have to start out speaking a little robotically, but as you get used to it, you can get quite an expansive script library/vocabulary.

I'm in your general area and I happen to personally know a counselor who has experience with autistic adults and may be able to help you work out better ways of interacting and also help you figure out an appropriate career path/strategy. I'll send you a private message with this information because I am not professionally affiliated with this therapist.

If you're having problems with your family, maybe you can find new ways to interact with them, limit your exposure to them, or work out some new rules how they will help you with your life.

You took a great first step by reaching out to others for help. If you continue with this positive, motivated attitude, and take action to improve things, everything will be okay.

So where in the bible does it say you can't marry your cousin or your uncle? Sometimes the Jerry Springer show has a lot of good advice.

One thing I can never understand about neurotypicals is the stupid social rules that declare love between cousins incest. If that were the case the bible would prohibit it. But neurotypicals think is wrong simply because nobody does it and they want to fit in with what is normal. The same is true with polygamy. The bible does not prohibit polygamy but because nobody practices it anymore it must be a sin.

So I am accused of disrespecting women and not being a gentleman.

A) I'm not interested in the bible

B) I didn't say anything about "cousin lovin'" as we call it here in Virginia

C) I didn't accuse you of anything

What I said was that you gave this poor dude terrible advice. He was saying that his behavior was getting him into trouble. You suggested that his situation was not a problem with cousins. This was very misleading because he indicated that he was having a problem with accidentally sexually harassing people. You can't harass ANYONE. This is against the law. This dude is going to get into trouble if he doesn't adjust the way he speaks to females. It's especially bad if it's happening with people in your family because they're around you all the time, know where you live, and might have had a grudge against you for years and are looking for an excuse to call the police. So they have the most power to actually do something that affects your life. So this dude needs to NOT harass his family (or coworkers, neighbors, or other people around him). No one should be harassed, but my point is that for his own self protection, his family are the worst people he could possibly harass.

It's easy to get confused in how one should speak to women. When you watch TV, movies, read books, or just watch other men speak/deal with women, you get a lot of mixed signals. And then of course you have your feelings to deal with. But like I said before, everyone can build a script library or script tree of what is okay to say. Before long it becomes pretty easy to say the "right" thing in the "right" situation.

I am not talking about blatant sexual harassment, in these cases being autistic is no excuse. Usually I am talking about cases in which autistics are accused of sexual harassment when in reality they may have only violated socially acceptable rules.

For example, believe it or not, flirting with women may be socially acceptable even at work as long as it is welcomed. Autistics would be at a terrible disadvantage in this respect because they tend to be oblivious to social cues and body language which could land them in real trouble. All a woman would have to do is to tell the autistic that she wishes a professional work environment and that her job description does not include flirting. Unfortunately most women would feel that they are not required to give fair warning to the autistic because zero tolerance work place rules protect her against sexual harassment. But she is not being fair because she already is giving the neurotypical fair warning through the use of a body language that autistics are sometimes oblivious of because of their complex thought patterns which require the brain to work harder.