If you are and might want to know why, before the Socialisation of Labor under Capitalism work was less formal and less centrally planned by privately owned workplaces as we know it today. This explains the high unemployment rate of neurodiverse people at 80 – 85%. Not a very fulfilling or happy life being unable to do much, even if there is a little bit of income from social security which is in many cases not enough to pay rent nor bills.
Before the socialisation of labor you did not need to pass through interviews to start working for yourself to survive as the means of production were relatively open sourced compared to today.
Work was either done by means of subsistence or via family and neighbours as in most cases you would likely live with the same people from childhood to until the end of your life unless war ruined things. In the case of non-subsistence workers, many individual artisans existed who had to focus their brains on producing the same products dozens or hundreds of times over which might have been less than appealing to some people.
If a person was homeless the only thing preventing them from building shelter would have likely been more physical instead of police officers enforcing zoning laws, vagrancy acts and building codes to harass them for “less civilised living practices”.
You did not have laws inherited through prejudiced colonial notions of 'civilised vs uncivilised (Not up to a certain rigid standard)' dictating what type of housing could be built in the sense of today. This same logic was used also to destroy the homes of many native peoples around the world, that the lifestyle of “the less civilised” is prohibited all because it is portrayed as “inferior to the lifestyle of the normal civilised person”, even if people are happy and surviving ok.
It was much easier to start producing value than today when work has become not only forced but rigidly designed because capitalist governments and their stakeholders want more financial revenue compared to than if everybody worked at their own pace.
Too many laws and regulations because they insist on people absolutely needing to follow a certain mode of production while doing whatever they can to try to rig things against enterprises which are not Capitalist from being able to exist long.
“Success”, just like the concepts of “morality vs degeneracy, inferior vs superior and civilised vs uncivilised” is an entirely subjective notion and not every lifeform or person on our planet sees it the same way. Just like how all cultures are equal. If possible these laws need to be challenged to either be abolished or changed to be in a way where they don't force Capitalism's morality and definitions of success on other people.