smart or aspie? advice or help please?

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so my diagnosis still isn't clear here, but there are two options:

1 I have aspergers
2 I'm just eccentric and have very high IQ and social anxiety

like, i've been told on many occations that what I'm doing is weird and I should stop it, and I very often don't understand people! Especially if people are crying! because I know that they're sad, but am I supposed to do anything about it? If so, what?
I also mess up on sarcasm very often, and I'm blind to flirting. But I'm good with words and I use my hands a lot when I talk and I like making overdramatic facial expressions when I speak.

And then I have a lot of rutines, and if somebody does anything that ruins the plan I made in my head I get "hysterical" and these things I've been doing my whole life!

so I guess I can see some signs of Aspergers here, but there are also things that says different!

so my question is, how do I know? what are the biggest differences?

Last edited by ExoMuseum on 10 Apr 2014, 8:19 am, edited 1 time in total.

Most neurological function does not effect IQ. IQ really doesn't say much about what is actually going on in your brain. There are many other ways of being smart about things as well. However, there is a statistic out there that says 10% of autistics have some kind of savant thing going on.

For years, studies have appeared to show that the brains of autistic people are underconnected in comparison with the brains of non-autistic people—both in terms of structure (physical connections between brain cells) and of function (information exchanged among brain areas). In a way, this seemed to make sense on an intuitive level: People with autism might be task-focused and socially withdrawn because their brains couldn’t connect some of their experiences with others—or so the thinking went.

But as other investigators examined this research more closely, they began to notice flaws. Most of these studies only examined connectivity during specific cognitive tasks, and only within a select few brain regions. This led researchers to wonder what they might find if they scanned the brains of autistic people as a whole, all at once, when they weren’t focused on specific tasks.

What they discovered may overturn the prevailing view of the autistic brain. Two new studies by independent teams have found that the brains of autistic children and adolescents are actually overconnected in comparison with the brains of non-autistic people—and that this hyperconnectivity takes on some distinctive patterns.
Autistic Brains

The studies, one at San Diego State University and another at Stanford University, consisted of fMRI scanning of children and teens with autism and a non-affected control group, all of whom were directed to think about nothing in particular. The results were surprising: In the San Diego study, brains of adolescents with severe autism showed strikingly greater resting connectedness than brains of adolescents with mild autism, which were in turn more connected than unaffected adolescents. And the same held true for younger children in the Stanford study: autistic children’s brains displayed much greater functional connectivity than the brains of their non-autistic counterparts did.

What’s more, the specifics of this hyperconnectivity provide some intriguing hints about the nature of autism. Both studies found that functional connectivity in autistic people’s brains was most increased in the visual and extrastriate cortices, which deal with sight; and in the temporal lobe, which plays crucial roles in processing and associating sensory input.

>>Full Article: Autistic Hyper-Connectivity<<

Autism is a Neural Processing Disorder, resulting in (among other things) social impairments. Social deficits are not the determining factor, they're just symptoms.