Lots of colleges will recognize what you have done since HS- just remember that it’s not just more ‘life experience’- they want to be reasonably sure that you are able for the academics. That’s where linking the kinds of learning you have been doing - I know you must have done a bunch of modules- to what you would be doing in college is helpful. Reasoning, pattern recognition, project management, communicating complex ideas quickly, accurately and succinctly are all examples of traits that have analogs in third level education!
Depending on your interests some colleges have programs for non-typical students- Columbia General Studies, for example- and others have actively worked with the Vets Posse program (Vassar was the first, now UChicago, UVa, Wesleyan and I think Dartmough).