How does having Aspergers give you a hard time?

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Some of this difficulties are directly as a result of Autism, while other are not Autisms fault but how other react to Autistic traits.

Being different (not wrong) in the social areas people generally care about most. A lot of the other issues are related to that.

Employment went pretty good considering I have moderately severe Aspergers but it has been way below what I expected.

Lack of Independence heavily related to above and the other issues.

Not getting to some of my special interests because I am spending so much time on other special interests.

Lack of sleep and odd sleeping hours due to above.

My living spaces are a mess. It is embarrassing when other people see it.

Poor multitasking abilities.

Not being able to do things fast.

Slow to accept necessary change. An advantage is I do not accept bad change

Fear of teling people who I am and backlash due to perceived overdiagnosis, lazy, excuse maker, faker for money or factitious disorders

its hard for me to make, keep and manage friends.

I wish I had the skillz to function as a normal person with others, I want to date and find love and experience good times and with aspergers I feel Im missing out on alot of social activities and generally being accepted.

For me, it's just loneliness. Feeling like there's no one who understands who you are or who sees things the way you do. I have had friendships in my life, but they're usually high maintenance and unstable. Sometimes I swear that all the friends I've had in my life have had mental health problems. Lately it's been worse, my core group of friends has just been drifting apart and I seem to be the one everyone's drifting away from. Sometimes I wish it felt like there was someone there for me. But a lot of the time, I seem to be able to manage things on my own.

For me its the fact that I'll never be able to have a career and I'll never be able to hold down a relationship for long enough to start a family.

Its a tie between being lonely all the time because I can't make friends and having trouble keeping jobs.

I guess adjusting to change is one of the biggest issues because its part of what caused me to drop out of school. Identifying and responding to emotions is another big struggle for me because i end up bottling up my emotions or just thinking everything is a panic attack. Personal hygiene is another i couldnt take care of my hair and had to cut it off and people ridicule me for wearing the same clothes for days. Controling my anger is another and i end up becoming violent when frustrated and angry. Socailizing was more of a problem when i wanted to make friends because i would get so frustrated with myself when someone wouldnt want to hang out with me because im too awkward and loud. Reading comprehension was a big problem in school.sensory issues make going out in public extremely difficult if the facility has flourecent lights and too much people i will go through sensory overload and not beable to function without any help and talking becomes extremely difficult.

The list goes on...

I'm dumb, insipid, perpetually stiff and obsess over lame things.