Asperger's with Asperger's

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My only contact with the AS community (if there is such a thing) is here at this site. I don't know anybody personally that I can identify with AS. But I wonder if AS people have an easier time with each other than with so-called normal people.

You spelled aspergers wrong.

OMG you did spell aspergers wrong.
I call for immediate thread deletion.

Lets ban him too!
CAST DOWN THE HERETIC!

Oy, you're scaring away the members!

Anyways, I do not know myself, as I haven't formally met another Aspie.

Yes...well, I personally get on best with other aspies.
I talk to a few in real life and get on fine.

My best friend's brother has HFA, or AS, who the hell knows, but anyway, I get along phenomenally with him.
I might get along even better with him than with my best friend.

I apologize for the misspelling. I must have been hungry at the time.

you are worth more than your smelling.

I don't remember hearing anything about how he smells . . .

Great idea! Wrongplanet scratch 'n' sniff entry tests.

For a perfectionist like me, that misspelling really caught my eye (I also had to check 'misspelling' from thefreedictionary)

For some reason I don't think two ASes ( ) would get along any better... it all comes down to similar hobbies, interests, studies and such (since when have I known the first thing about socializing). I know one guy who has some aspie traits, at least social-wise. We don't get along unless there's some third person to which we both can talk. I have almost no interest in what he talks about, and seems to me like it's reciprocal

What I've noticed about being with other AS people is this:

When I know them very well, as in the case of my son, the connection is phenomenal because we accept each other for all the quirks and idiosyncracies, and they don't matter anymore except as a reason to laugh and point at each other.

It takes me a little while to get used to communicating with other AS people. Kids aren't too bad because there's a natural adult/student relationship there that is respected to some extent. Other grown ups...I have to take some time to learn their habits and then desensitize myself in a way. Usually other people's tics drive me crazier than my own do, so I have to get used to them and then set it in my mind that it's a tic and I can't change it. For that matter, neither can they.

Now, once we get to know each other, I start to be able to follow their connections as well as my own. I have noticed that with my son having been living with his dad for 6 months, it's getting harder to follow his connections because I am not with him all the time and I am losing my frame of reference for him. He says that it is the same for him.

I go a to group with other people who have AS. I feel as awkward there as I do anywhere else.