Asperger's: Type X

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If there were categories of AS I would be Type X. I am shy at times, but also outspoken occasionally and usually at the wrong time.
i have many NT qualities but they didn't come naturally. My mother forced us to make eye contact starting when we were little. I don't like it, the connection that results from it is physically uncomfortable for me.
I know that other people have thoughts and emotions that differ from mine but I don't naturally take them into account when planning and whatnot.
I hang out with Christians most of the time they are some of the most tolerant people I have ever met. I do the wrong things sometimes but nobody except my (possibly) ADHD brother. Then once he points it out everybody tends to laugh. I laugh too but it does hurt. I tell my mom that it's because if I don't laugh I'll cry.
My AS is yet undiagnosed. My mom doesn't go for the 'I am who I am' thing, so even if I was diagnosed she'd probably have the same expectations as if I was NT. (Btw I am sure that I am somewhere very high on the spectrum but not NT.)
My social skills are decentish. I have friends who occasionally point out my aspie traits, but they (mostly) do it kindly.
I guess I call it Type X because I don't have severe symptoms but they do somewhat interfere with my life on occasion.

So, other than the social side, what makes you think you have Aspergers?

I have short intense interests on things examples:
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my mother described me as blunt and upfront
Small noises irritate the heck out of me
There are things (movements) that if I don't do it stresses me out.
One of my friends tokd me I have no hand-eye coordination
I don't think like other people
I correct mistakes upon sight whether they are spelling, grammar, or math
I run my hands over textured substances
once I was really excited or nervous and so I started rocking my chair
I tend to invade people's personal space
I can remember numbers and quantitative data better than verbal data
If I'm not motivated I don't learn it easily
I have executive functioning issues I have started a bajillion projects and have finished none of them
One of my friend's sister confuses me because she uses sarcasm a LOT but doesn't change ANYTHING about her voice
There's more but I can't think of it right now

This "Type X," is there any reference or is it your own construction? I'm asking this because Temple Grandin uses a distinction in "Path A" and "Path B" autistic people in her book The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships and i couldn't find any reference for this, either. Therefore, any serious information would be welcome.

No its just what I call it because its not as bad as some aspie people have but it is there and it does affect me to some extent. I tend to categorize things so I just called it Type X its somewhere between a Type 3 and Type 4 aspie.