Skipping meals :(

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Ok, I begin to understand where you are coming from when you say you need to compensate your AS. It is a pressure I used to feel after I got diagnosed. It is not as serious today, but I still feel I need to have something else to offer. After I got diagnosed, my grades at college got better, for one because that diagnosis lifted some weight of my shoulders, and because I feeled that if there is a reason for me being socially inept, I might as well focus on other things. My grades improved dramatically, and I picked up sports again. For me, changing my appearance or becoming more successful academically didn't change anything when it comes to being left out.

Okay, I get the whole 'I need to compensate for my AS by being better at everything else'. I got that before I was diagnosed. Part of what landed me in treatment for anorexia aged fifteen. I had the same 'if I'm skinny everything will be okay' attitude, but it's a really faulty one. Changing your weight only changes your weight, it doesn't magically change everything else.
A few perceptions I wanted to challenge you on:
a) You don't know that people only like you as a friend. There might be some guy out there who really likes you, but because of shyness or some other reason hasn't made it known. Or people might have tried to flirt with you but your AS meant you missed the clues, so they didn't pursue it further. It's also silly to believe that just being thinner will make loads of guys like you. Most men aren't THAT shallow, and the few that are aren't worth it.
b) You seem to think that your friends don't have problems, and that because they are skinny everything is great in their life. That's definately not going to be the case. They will all have their problems. When I had my ED I'd have people coming up telling me they were jealous of me because I was thin, and my life must be perfect, and how could they lose weight so their lives could be perfect too. At the time my whole life was falling apart, and I really hated it.

I know their lives aren't perfect but they're still at a greater advantage than I am. I'm just glad that they always refuse when a guy offers to do their homework for them if they would go out/have sex/make out with him. They're like, "f**k no. I don't want to fail the class so I'll do it myself. Bee-yotch." Okay, that was a direct impersonation of one of my closest friends. She's tiny in both ways, really short and tiny waist but biig ghetto booty. She says that most guys don't approach her because she's "intimidating" even though she's super attractive. She gets all scary with ignorant people and I love her for it.

What I'm wondering is, am I putting on an intimidating aura without being aware of it? Or some other off-putting aura? Apart from the self confidence thing because that's not something I can fix for a long time. I know in high school, I was very similar to my friend. I would, figuratively, bite the heads off of anyone that was ignorant or rude. Apparently, asking me out and surviving the emasculation I would put them through was a part of initiation to sit at the "popular" table at lunch. I would notice this as the a**hole I just chewed out or beat up is now sitting at the popular table when they were sitting at the nerd/outcast/punk table the day before. Huh.

I dunno where I was going with this. So I'm gonna post it anyway. >.<

Hmm it's possible. I know that in high school in year 11 I thought I was completely invisible, only to have a friend tell me a year later that guys were into me but I'd just never noticed. I think it's very easy for us to either misread cues or miss them altogether, or send out the wrong cues.

...Damn. I feel like I need to wear a button on all my shirts saying, "IF YOU'RE NOT OBVIOUS, I WON'T NOTICE."

Sounds like a plan. I am seriously considering this

...we have a button maker at my work. Hmmmm....

I usually get light headed when I skip meals.

I don't get lightheaded until I notice how long it's been since I ate last. I take iron pills every other day in the morning to counteract that a bit. ^.^

I'm guessing that if you're walking round with your 'all men are jerks' vibe, they'll pick up on it.
On top of that, as Aspies we don't always pick up on other people flirting. If they flirt and we don't flirt back (because we've not noticed) they take that as a 'no thanks'.

I usually don't walk around like that though. When I'm in those moods, I tend to isolate myself until it leaves. >.<

Yeeeah. I need a sign or button requesting obviousness. XD

Pezar already said that you look hot.

I wonder if there's any difference if you are deliberately depriving yourself of food, rather than simply neglecting to eat? I've done quite a lot of fasting in my time, and I didn't get fatter, quite the contrary.