Monologuing and Other Aspie Moments

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Is it such a faux pas if an aspie commits grievous autistic behavior while interacting with another aspie? In this case, I mean giving a pedantic monologue involving some of my "stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest."
(This conversation occurred on Tuesday, January 10, 2006, through AIM; and times are marked for Central Standard Time (-6:00 UCT). Larval's and my screen names were changed to our WrongPlanet.net forum names. Regulars on #wrongplanet may better know Larval as iamlost.)

(14:10:26) jbrown105a: Je vais aller chez le dentiste?
(15:39:35) NeantHumain: You should be able to figure the meaning of that one out. Dentiste contains the morphemes dente and -iste. Dente is cognate with English tooth, and -iste is cognate with English -ish.
(15:39:44) Larval: .......
(15:39:45) Larval: o
(15:39:49) Larval: *i
(15:39:50) Larval: dont
(15:39:53) Larval: give
(15:39:53) Larval: a
(15:39:54) Larval: damn
(15:39:56) Larval:
(15:39:59) NeantHumain: Moreover, dentiste is pretty much an English word as well as a French one.
(15:41:26) NeantHumain: Chez's etymology is the Latin word casa, meaning hut or shop, and is cognate with the Spanish word of the same spelling. However, it underwent a shift in its syntactic role and became a preposition in French instead of a noun.
(15:42:16) NeantHumain: Je is the nominal case of the first-person singular personal pronoun.
(15:43:55) NeantHumain: The phrase vais [infinitif] is an idiom for the near future tense, expressed semantically rather than syntactically; it is conjugated to match its subject in the present tense of the indicative mood in the active voice.
(15:45:10) NeantHumain: Le is merely the definite article declined in masculine, singular form in the non-prevowel form (the prevowel form being l'-).
(15:46:10) NeantHumain: Aller is an infinitive verb in the present tense and active voice. It is the verb that complements the near-future-tense idiom in this particular sentence.
(15:46:44) NeantHumain: You may recognize the verb aller from a song by Ricky Martin: "We will go! / Alle, alle, alle!"
(15:47:29) NeantHumain: I should score super-deluxo aspie points for that mind-numbingly detailed monologue!
(15:59:29) Larval: ...............

I should show you the log of my superstring theory discussion on the #wrongplanet chat room last night. We mostly cleared the room out by boring people to death i think.

Rupert Murdoch, stop growling in my ear! Do you hear? Do you hear? I-I-I-I-why? Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't.

Lucky for most people, my ranting is internal. Otherwise, I'd be friendless.

I guess it's a faux pas only if the other person doesn't want to hear it, regardless of NAness or Auttieness. Not that that always stops me.

Don't know whether it's a faux pas or not, but I do it when speaking to NTs anyway ...

It's their fault for not complaining!

...on second thoughts, maybe that's why I have so few friends. But they're good friends