Could someone please explain this to me?

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I'm not sure why but I have a hard time knowing if I contact people too much. I'm not really a social person. I'm definitely introverted and I spend most of my time alone (happily so) but sometimes I get really attached to people (especially intelligent people who are a bit older than I am). And when I do I sort of want to talk to them a lot. I want to discuss things and I want to have deep interesting conversations about astronomy or psychology or whatever interest I have at the time. If people then don't clearly tell me that I'm contacting them too much I have a tendency to talk to them a lot. Not every day. When I'm in one of those periods where I'm attached to someone I think I probably contact them once or twice a week (sometimes even less than that). Anyway, it seems like I either contact them too often (more often online than actually meeting up by the way) or talk too much about my interests. It seems like it gets too much for them so they gradually distance themselves from me. I've lost "friends" that way (I'm not sure how to define a friendship, hence the quotation marks).

I'm not really sure where the limits are and it all just confuses me. It makes me really anxious sometimes and I'm afraid of being a burden to people. Because I, for some reason, have lost "friends" this way I sort of think something's wrong as soon as the person I want to talk to don't talk to me in a while. It's really annoying. Am I doing something wrong? How do I know if I talk to someone more often than they want to talk to me if they don't tell me so? Like I said, I'm very introverted so I don't really socialise too much but every once in a while I just get very attached to people and I want their attention. Is that weird? Could someone please explain this to me?

It feels like this text is a bit messy and incoherent. My apologies.

I have the same sort of troubles.... but the only solution I could find was to level with them up front.
Tell them straight that if you're ever making them feel uncomfortable, that they have to tell you so clearly and directly... and make sure they understand. Mundies have trouble with literalness sometimes.

People form new relationships and break them all the time, NTs usually more easily than us apparently. I think NTs are just less serious about it, so there's less turmoil.

I have had this too. i would talk for a long while over my favourite subjects and would try to avoid small talk. I enjoy talking with other aspies or even intreasted non-aspies (should i call them normals?) in a discussion. usually i will listen to any intellectual lecture so long as i can put points in.

What i try to do is get a little debate going.this way the other person is involved strongly rather than you just lectureing. i had gone with a friend to see her horses once and got in a debate over the orgin of the universe in mcdonalds. ended up ignoring her for a whole hour.

I sometimes feel like I'm doing the same thing with my best friend. She was the first person I asked about the possibility of me having AS. Since then, I text her nearly every day about something related to AS. (AS has been one of my "special interests" for the past year.)

I'm pretty sure I'm just way over-analyzing it, but I feel sometimes I'm bugging her because sometimes she doesn't respond at all to my texts or IMs. I understand that she may be busy, but I can't help but wonder if I'm annoying her or not.