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University really transforms you. A couple of years there and you won't know yourself, especially if you end up at an (even relatively good) uni.
Plus, as people are becoming more open about such stuff, let's be clear on this: people who find people skills hard are getting into, and being successful in, the law - including people with autism spectrum conditions and other neurodivergent/specific learning difficulty issues. Some of these types work in some of the world's globally finest and most prestigious commercial law firms, raking in not hundreds of thousands of Indian Rupees in as salaries, but hundreds of thousands of British Pounds and U.S. Dollars. Therefore, contrary to what some nepo types may indicate to you, the most fancy careers within the legal field are 1000% open to you. Is it likely to be more difficult? Yes, obviously. Will there be loads of bumps on the road? No-brainer, there will. Will you maybe get disappointed due to being refused access to some professional opportunities your more socially mobile/neurotypical friends seem to be getting with ease? Again, sure to happen sometimes. Is there a chance law may not work out for you? Again, of course. You may be forced to go to a tenth-rate uni (many of those around). Or you may have toxic partners managing you, perhaps toxic professors marking your work/having power over you, who don't recognise your talents, nepo kids who seem to have all the answers, all the privileges, all the get-out-of-prison free cards for being arrogant pieces of muck while still being rewarded for such behaviour. Trouble is, all these (and many more issues) are equally applicable to other fields, too. But if you can pull through, you may just find that being a lawyer is an amazing thing to have done with your life.
Regards,
A blind lawyer living with total sight loss (a condition resulting from premature birth called Retinopathy of Prematurity) who had zero friends at school and built so-called 'people skills' entirely at university.