Icarus_Falling wrote:
I confess, I thought that the way I feel and react in this area might have been common amongst aspies, with all of their strange disconnects from general humanity; but it appears I was wrong about this.

I wonder, then, what is wrong with me; or, what is right with me, and wrong with everyone else...
Not as different as you think. Personally, I lost a good acquaintance recently. Someone I generally liked and cared about and whom I tried on numerous occasions to help. I feel more guilty than anything else, but I do miss her. I do not agree with her decision, as part of being alive is feeling pain. You just have to find a way to get through it...day-by-day. I learned that at her age and did not "off" myself. I tried to share this with her to encourage her to find her own path, but I failed. There is a void, but it is not like what other people seem to feel and express.
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