Why Do Us Aspies/Auties Have an issue with...

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TMI... Some of us are offended by ... shagging.

I'm sorry it offends you. However, what I said didn't reveal anything about my sex life.

Or was it the fact that sex exists that offends you?

Just the word and talking about it.

Exactly

LOLMIDNA, Twilight Princess is teh best game ever

Anyway to answer your question, Autistic people cannot look people in the eye because it is too intimate for them to deal with basically. The typical brain deals with forms of Intimacey with information from the social part of the brain. in Autism this part of the brain is essentialy not there, and so Autistic people have great difficulty with even the slightest intimacey.

Again, I'm sorry it offends you.

What is odd, is that I used to look people in the eye until awhile ago, I used to doing starring contests and do well at them

Its just far too much stimuli to have to deal with during any given moment. Makes me want to go on one of my Psychotic episodes just to get away from it sometimes.

I should force you to look in my glazing eyes to see what you would do... Ha ha.

I'm afraid they'll look through the lenses and see the reptilian creature sitting in the cockpit in my head.

Even though it shouldn't, looking people in the eyes feels ridiculously intimate to me, like how I'm afraid of looking at people in general in case they notice and get creeped out.

Hmm... lemme think... would you like it quick and painless or long and torturous? XD

Honestly Its more like a trigger to my Fight or Flight response, except there is no flight option usually. Usual actions include me attempting to destroy whatever is triggering my episode. Other times Ill just start screaming random nonsense while attempting to get away as quick and as far as possible. It is quite a varied response.

I used to have some issue with eye contact when I was younger but it is no longer an issue. I make eye contact naturally now and I don't even think about it.

I find eye contact distressingly intimate, and usually avoid it as much as I can. I once explained to someone that unexpected eye contact and social interaction are, to me, much like some stranger sticking their head in my living room window and greeting me. Horribly invasive and uncalled for.

To me its more like your reading a book and the book slowly becomes their god damn face :/

^Yeah, what they said. It feels invasive; not somewhere that just anybody should get to go just because they want to (though that is the societal expectation, arrg).
It's interesting how people describe it differently. I wonder if it's a difference in the actual experience or the interpretation of it.