difference AS - NT

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I've often thought about that. I came up with a line that I think of as half joke half serious:

What would you call someone with AS that had "social interaction" as a special interest?

NT

As I said, I'm only half serious when I say that, but it seems to me that there is a grain of truth to it.

I've been kinda, vaguely, groping-in-the-dark, moving in that direction for months.
Hubby. He seems sociable on the surface, but so rigid. Pedantic.
On some, practical issues, we make sense to each other instantly and there's little need to talk at all. On other issues, he gets that bug up his ass, the demons come out, and there's no communication at all. Try the same issue 20 years later, and he still has that same bug up his ass. There's nothing in-between.

And he re-lives all the traumatic moments of his childhood on a daily basis.
I won't deny that they were traumatic.

His special interest isn't really socializing for the joy of it. It seems more like networking. Building tribal alliances, for protection and mutual support. Like it's nothing personal. He yells at the football game when everyone else yells, laughs when everyone else laughs, but I don't buy it anymore.

I don't know that any of this is true. Just thinking out loud and trying to figure out why he's such a basket case.