social anxiety and aspergers?

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so yes, can you have both social anxiety and aspergers? what would that be like ? any thoughts?

Yes, in fact it's very common.

Actually it's quite often. I could say most Aspies get it sooner or later. Being socially inadequate leads to being bullied and being bullied is an often cause of social anxiety.

In my case the social anxiety made me change from extrovert to introvert because it was the only way for me to pass in the society. For a long time I was afraid to do anything social related (at a time I wasn't even leaving my house for a year or so) and I still don't feel comfortable in some social situations but I fight it now. I know I can let myself be off guard sometimes and the people around me are not children anymore so they won't bully me just because they realise I am different. But it isn't the same for all Aspies. Some stay very shy and alienated their whole life due to the anxiety they experience in social situations.

Having too many sensory neuroreceptors, leading to an overload of the brain's ability to process sensory stimuli (including social interactions and nonverbal cues), leads to a natural state of constant low level anxiety.

Then add to that, as Kiriae noted, the psychological and emotional stressors of knowing that one is socially inadequate and likely to misread, misinterpret and inadvertently misbehave socially without knowing it, it would be virtually impossible NOT to experience anxiety associated with social interaction.

It would be extremely rare for anyone with AS to be completely free of social anxiety, unless they were so dimwitted that they never realized how inept they appear to others in social situations.