It doesn't matter if his case is real or not. What matters is, for 17 years, a mechanical engineer basically just lived like a bum rather than trying to get any kind of real job, even something as simple as a fry cook, waiter, janitor, anything. He had already
been a janitor and maintenance mechanic once, so that should have been easy to get again.
What _is_ clear is he can barely write, he records videos of himself outdoors that are barely audible, and even if he won this strange case, he's clearly not employable now. More than likely his mental illness started after he became an engineer and quickly progressed.