This paper analyzes written narratives by autistic individuals from the Global South, focusing on the questions of representation, voice, authorship, education, and agency. It also upholds accounts of everyday material experiences of neurodivergent adults from a small Indian community for intellectually disabled individuals called "Partner" in the suburbs of Hooghly, a district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Focusing on daily community-building activities based on voluntary participation from intellectually disabled adults, this paper sheds light on the absence of systemic support, resources, structures of care, and epistemological gaps which present severe challenges to not just the functioning but also the survival of non-profit, non-governmental organizations such as Partner.