how to cope with personality clashes in friendship?

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Ok so one of the ways my AS affects me is to take things very seriously ie if I ask a question I expect a serious answer not "mucking about" often I ask people are you being serious and they keep saying yes yes when it turns out they aren't and are "joking". This confuses and upsets me a lot. I had this issue with a friend last night (also aspie) and like many people when I tried to tell her how confused and upset I was about it she just kept saying "it doesn't revolve around you and I don't feel like being serious and I want to muck around in my own way". How was I meant to know she was "joking" I mean she tells me everything about everything including her sex life and has even mooned me as a "joke" before. So when I asked her if she was using a vibrator or had pants on it was serious I didn't want to disturb her. I asked and asked two or three times and she kept saying oh yeah I am using one and I have no pants on despite the fact it was supposed to be a "joke". I am all for mucking around in some ways but this is not one of them but generally I am a serious person and there is nothing wrong with that. All I ask is for people to respect it and even now I am still very very upset about it. how do I handle this situation? I don't like fighting she has gone off to work with it still not sorted but do want my point of view respected and acknowledged.

She also has has an issue with boundaires ie she will scratch her bum or stretch with her legs wide open I handle that by strongly saying please don't so that but it can be tough sometimes. I guess like all aspies she is young for her age more like 16 than 23.

I understand what you're going through and have a similar situation with one of my friends - she's also aspie, older than me yet acts much younger. What has worked for me so far is being firm about my boundaries and what I won't accept. Tell her that she cannot "muck about" with you as you just cannot handle it and that as your friend that you'd like her to respect that.

That's why I rather have no friends.