Aspergers and Acting.

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I love acting. It is the only time I feel 100% in control of a social situation. Obviously, most of the time there is a script, and you get to rehearse until you get it right, but it's more than that. Even when I'm improvising and even when I'm the only one on stage in front of the audience, I feel totally comfortable in a way I never feel comfortable in a person-to-person setting.

There is an expression that says "an individual in an audience may be wrong, but an audience is always right". I like that expression because it makes very clear that an audience is not a person: you don't have to make eye contact; it doesn't talk back; when you make a joke it laughs; when you talk, it always listens. Acting has been life changing for me, because it's allowed me to communicate, which I've never been able to do properly.

God, and I thought sarcasm was had to understand in person

I'm brilliant at acting, I've spent nearly my whole life acting "normal", I've given myself several different personalities throughout the years, pretended to have an outlook on life which I don't ect.
I've also made too many friends without realising (I don't want to be most of these people's friends, they just call us friends), I did it by using my attention to detail to tell what someone likes in a person, and then change myself to make myself just that. I've always done this almost instinctively.
I decided to stop a few months ago, I just act normal enough to not make people feel uncomfortable.
Only, I still accidentally make friends when doing that though.

I didn't do very well in drama at school though, I can't stand people watching me.

Have you seen "Who Am I This Time" with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken? I think it is a delightful movie.

From Wikipedia:

"Who Am I This Time?" is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1961. The story was collected in Vonnegut's famous anthology Welcome To The Monkey House.
Synopsis

The story centers on a character named Harry Nash, who is an extremely shy and characterless small-town man. However, whenever he takes a part in the local, amateur theater production he becomes the character to an overwhelming extent. Soon Helene Shaw, a recent addition to the town, falls in love with Nash - but with his character in the play.

I took an acting class because I need it to get my degree. I over think acting. I like it, but I don't think I'm very good because I don't know how to mimic emotional response. My acting isn't big enough, because I can't tell what is too big or not big enough. But I really like Boleslavsky's acting technique, because it kind of intellectualizes acting so it doesn't rely quite as much on in-the-moment emotions.

I'm a good actress too. Maybe even good enough to get into movies. I do wish to have a try in the future. I mimic well, and I memorize scripts fairly fast too. However I cannot take on all sorts of roles, especially to those which I definitely not relate to well.

It depends on your situation. You can ACT knowledgeable as an aspie, because you're not portraying anyone particularly. I'm not a good actor, but I can reproduce vocal dialects almost flawlessly.

I've always wanted to act, but I feel like only recently have I learned to control my stagefright. The most compelling reason to learn to act is that I can already cry on command. I taught myself for no god reason, the hard way, drawing from my pain. I thought I would be able to use that skill to deliver really authentic sounding false confessions to the ninjas I simply assumed existed and were enemies of our clan and would torture me at any opportunity, and then they'd get ambushed and slaughtered by my guys at the coordinates I fed them.