Do you have trouble talking to your Siblings?

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I have a really hard time, talking to my younger Sister, sometimes. The two of us have completley different speaking styles, and we rub each other the wrong way. It bothers me when she asks me what's new, and I feel like telling her that nothing's new. It's pretty hard for something in my Life to be new, if I'm set in my ways. "What's new?" "I enjoy staring at my Double Decker Buses." "No, really! What's new?" "I've been watching my BBC Comedies." "No, really! What's new?" "Nothing, really." "OOOOHhhh." "Would you like some Coffee?" "No thanks." "Would you like some Tea?" "I'll make some, if I want some." "Would you like some Popcorn?"
"It's like 11 in the Morning. I haven't even had Breakfast." Than with the urge to go off about what a wonderful Bus the Routemaster was, I stutter, "Are you sure you don't want any Coffee?"

I totally understand. My sibs and I don't even exist in the same world.

I don't really find it hard talking to my sister... but some subjects we just don't go there.

My brothers have just gotten used to me over the years, so I can communicate with them, albeit not in a manner that would produce much stimulating conversation.

I really find it hard talking with my sister my only sister who's nine. She thinks she's smarter than I am and so she always takes the side of my parents in arguements. She's like my mother's mimic. Since she's younger than I am I tend to think that she isn't smart that she shouldn't boss me around like she does. We get into arguments all the time.

I get along a lot better with my sister now that we're older and live apart. We got on each other's nerves like crazy when we lived together. Nowadays though, I go to concerts and shows with her family all the time, and she does vice versa. We've gotten to the point we really have a lot of fun together and don't get on each other's nerves hardly anymore. Give it a few years, and wait till you move out on your own, and it'll get better.

All that questioning though would get on my nerves coming from anybody! It just sounds very rude and prying, like they are looking to get a specific answer from you or something. I hate it when people drill me with questions relentlessly attempting to make small talk!

Sometimes yes, but then my sister shouts at everyone, Im not the exception.

My brothers and sisters only talk to me on holidays and family occasions. Other than that, by the time they hit their teens, I guess I wasn't cool enough to associate with anymore. My 17 year-old sister and 8 year-old brother, I can understand since they live out of state. My sister is kind of a little diva...and mean, anyway. My 18 and 22 year-old sisters, I haven't seen or heard from in 10 years since my father kicked me out his house. But my 21 year old brother lives in the same city and doesn't even call.

It hurts like hell because I think if only I was "normal" enough or whatever, he would want to hang with me more. They are all hyper NTs with the name-brand clothes, cell phones and have a worldliness I can't copy, even though I'm years older than they are. Compared to them, I sometimes feel like a failure as I'll never have the social whatever-it-is that makes them get along in the world.

For some reason, I usually have much less akwardness interacting with family members.

My brother's a drummer. My case of asperger's came with sensory defensiveness, so I'm really really sensitive to light, sound, touch, etc. In other words, not a good combination with a drummer. And since our house is small, we had to share a room before he went to college (still do whenever he comes down). He's filled our small room with a drum set, congas, jembes, etc. Lots and lots of drums, even though he drums on everything else anyway.

Just talking to him isn't so bad, I just wish he wasn't so annoying. Even when he's not drumming, he does other things like violate my space (when we're watching a movie and both sitting on the couch, he does things with his feet--trying to be playful but it bugs me), etc.

I as kid, I had trouble getting along with my older sister, since she was practically a decade older than me. As a result, she was more like a second mother than a sister, and she was the favorite of the family. So me and her didn't get along very well. Now, things have improved significantly. We are now on civil terms. I see her about once a week, and generally don't have trouble communicating with her. However, I thing it would have been a lot better if me and her had more of a brother/sister relationship, rather than a mother/son relationship. Oh well.

I have a little trouble getting along with my sister because she doesn't like any of the stuff I'm into. For example, my main interests are Titanic, stereos, and ceiling fans, while my sister says mean stuff about my interests, such as,"your stereo is stupid,""Ceiling fans are childish," or "Titanic stinks." There is some good news here, though. Her boyfriend is into Titanic as well.

Me and my brothers are all asperger, i get on better with my youngest though. Probably because we have similair interests and personalities (both virgo's too) and Ive spent more time with him and taking him places then my other brother who tends to be more self centred then myself.

My middle brother has only really recently started to acknowledge his asperger problems but thankfully he's got himself out of the dead end bar work he was doing and is now some mid level manager of a franchise of restaurants or something along those lines...

I've thought that I was the only one who felt the way that I do. Thankyou for your replies. I look forward to reading more responses.

Not only do I have trouble talking to my little brother, but a great majority of the time I don't like and can't understand him.
It's like he has three completely different personalities, only one of which I actually like at all.
Sometimes he's polite, civilized and understandable. That's when I'm okay with him. At other times, however, he's either muttering made up words, spazzing out like a Tazmanian devil, or acting grumpy and inexpertly trying to express a victim mentality.
Not to mention the fact that he blames every problem he has with me on "my autism." Everytime I say something he thinks is annoying, he says, "that's because my brother has Autism", mostly in order to humiliate and publically embarass me. I have to make a serious effort to restrain myself from beating him up.
Yes, maybe I'm being a bit harsh towards him with what I'm saying here, but regardless, no matter how he's acting, it doesn't seem like his behaviour can properly be classed as human, and even most of the animals I'm familiar with don't exhibit his disturbing tendencies. I think he might be just plain crazy- in a bad way. The main reason I don't plan on ever having kids is because they might turn out to be like him, and -nobody- would want that.