I feel for you. Besides the obvious fact that you have a disability it also seems like overall society has shunned you . I have an acquaintance in a similar situation who can actually still code and has been out of the market for around 20 years. Nobody wants to employ him.
For those who are worried about a similar fate happening to them ( yes, I'm worried). I'd say that you have to form long term alliances with conscientious long term thinking people to partially alleviate situations like this.
p.s: I'm fully aware that insurance can take into account certain obviously visible disabilities (like a last a lost limb), but there are others where insurance will not be useful, for example chronic fatigue syndrome.
I presume you are indicating a business. It's not easy to pull of a software business or even contract if you have been out of touch for say 5 years. A business/contract is difficult for even healthy people if they are out of touch.
Yeah I just mean I've already had leads with multiple things like mobile game ads (SIPS, MIPS, SIP generator), NFT mint sniping (Solana), and videogame bots that I've made when desperate for money while disabled. Just seems like if I was able to put 40 hours a week on these things I'd easily be making enough to survive. But yeah of course I could be wrong about how difficult it is.
I think, the obvious thing to do in such a situation if you're fairly confident,( I know you said you weren't) is to engage another underemployed coder and then share the profits. I see that you have put your contact information on your profile, hopefully someone will contact you.
For those who are worried about a similar fate happening to them ( yes, I'm worried). I'd say that you have to form long term alliances with conscientious long term thinking people to partially alleviate situations like this.
p.s: I'm fully aware that insurance can take into account certain obviously visible disabilities (like a last a lost limb), but there are others where insurance will not be useful, for example chronic fatigue syndrome.