Do people with Asperger get angry easily?

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My parents called me "the angiest kid north of the Alps". As a teen, I definitely got angry - a lot - and in adult years as well. I still have to control it.
It is a reaction to a lot of things: To sudden fear, to rejection, to things going wrong - or just stress.

I can't win at anything When I try to tell people something calmly and rationally, such as "I didn't appreciate you blasting loud music all night long while I tried in vain to sleep. Please don't do it again", they laugh at me, insult me, or ignore me completely. So then I resort to "shocking" them by showing aggression and anger, which nearly always turns out badly. For me.

Yes I get angry easily. People make me angry. They are cruel, stupid, and unjust, and that's all there is to it.

I get frustrated easily which then lead to decisions that I later regret, such as gambling or emotional spending.

Whilst I become easily overwhelmed and anxious in overstimulating and foreign environments, I seldom seem to get angry. Should I be concerned by this?

For instance, I am often verbally abused by my mother and niece, but it's hard for me to react with any real emotion as I believe their admonishments and insults are usually justified. The majority of the time I appear to be impervious to criticism.

Is it common for those on the spectrum to be labelled such terms as "sluggish", "slow", "passive", "ret*d", "soft", "nonchalant", "easy-going", "lazy", "insensitive", "dopey" etc?

Whilst I acknowledge some of those examples are not necessarily of a derogatory nature, they are not, to my knowledge, usually associated with autistic individuals. If anything, I seem to fit the criteria of someone with inattentive ADHD rather than autism. Unless of course I am just a complete dimwit, which had crossed my mind...