Do you consider yourself special needs

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it seems to be used more for kids in an educational context.
so I had never considered applying that term to myself.

Like others here, I do consider my autism to be a disability in the sense of it preventing me from doing many things I would like to do, or even need to do. But since there is very little help out there for people like me, my autism is not so much a special need (which could be filled somehow) as just an ongoing limitation on my life (which others rarely even notice).

Does "being left alone to their own devices" and "ignore her presence and oddities" in Maintstream education Highschool level years counts as "special needs accomodation"?

It was the best years of my teenage years, possibly the best years I had in school.

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All I know is that I was having yearly assessments re the Care act 2014. I was getting help from a home care agency, but it proved much cheaper to hire the person from the agency privately , and she got more money than she was getting via the agency. That was OK for a while, but there was an outbreak of Covid at the school where she did a cleaning job. My chosen family now provide that support, as a result of which social services stopped doing the yearly assessments.

Not exactly but I see myself as needing some small accommodations. Like needing quiet time or needing to walk away to avert a meltdown. Most of my issues fall under anxiety and burnout. Otherwise, people just see as an eccentric but harmless nut I think.