Does "Social" Interaction include professional ?

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What is the panel's opinion regarding business communication? I've never had a problem picking up the telephone and ordering something from a supplier, or visiting a trade outlet and asking for what I need, and discussing the finer technical points. I don't need to know how the salesman's family is or where they went on holiday.

As soon as the communication becomes personal and social I avoid it. I always declined invitations to business lunches or so-called "jollies".

Is the diagnostic criteria for social/communication impairment intended to include ALL types of interaction, or just social?

Business communication goes much further than ordering something on the phone. This is a very narrow task. Task oriented communication is often much easier for people on the spectrum.

Business communication in the workplace is an entirely different thing and it is at times very much a form of social communication. Don't assume the only social communication is trivial small talk. There are huge amounts of social information flowing around you that have nothing to do with the weather or someone's new grandchild.

It is not an all or nothing thing. It can include significant impairments in social interaction on any level, professionally or otherwise. I think performing certain work related tasks that require social interaction can be rather easy because in that respect you are operating as more of a program with parameters and specific goals. If you are a buyer, your job is to buy,and to do that you pick up the phone and tell the seller what you need to buy and what price range you're looking for. If you are a project manager you tell your team what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by. I've know project managers who manage their teams quite well despite having horrible social skills otherwise.

Yeah, the kind of stuff the OP is describing comes with set rules and expectations, usually pretty clearly defined. Those aren't aren't has hard as "freeform" social situations, whether they are in informal or professional settings. It's not the "professional" aspect that matters. It's whether or not there are clear cut rules to be followed. When there aren't, we're lost until we can figure out what the unspoken rules are. And that take many years if we ever do learn them at all.