"Active but odd"

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Can you give examples of this 'odd/unusual/atypical' behaviour?

In essence, if you're "active but odd",

A) you actively approach other people ("most of the time" you initiate social interaction and do not withdraw from other people's approaches, you do not ignore it if others attempt to engage you socially and you do not simply stay passive, meaning you do allow it if others attempt to engage you in social interaction and but you do not reciprocate)

B) but you do so in an odd manner (as described in thr criteria, in some way your social interaction differs from that of "the average person" who doesn't have autism -

Examples, uhm... trying to share an interest with someone who isn't interested to hear about it or continuing to talk about an interest to someone who has lost interest and wants to change the topic.

Greeting/talking to someone who non-verbally signals that he doesn't want to be talked to. Ignoring how someone feels or trying to pay attention to how someone feels but failing to intuitively identify their state of mind and failing to intuitively adjust your behaviour to the person/the situation.

Then there's participating in class or during a meeting at work or in whatever kind of group of people and not being tuned into how the group operates socially. Talking, excessive talking, asking questions when with their behaviour others in the group have expressed that talking or asking questions is not currently socially accepted. Participating in group work either by being okay with it or not wanting to do it and trying to avoid it but dominating or withdrawing from the group or just being really out of sync with your thought process and the ideas you present or with your opinion on when to meet up or when to take a break.

Interrupting others a lot or getting interrupted a lot not simply because someone else is really rude and doesn't pay attention to your non-verbal signals but because you don't send out a sort of huge and clear "I have something to say, pay attention to me now"-vibe when you're about to start to talk.

Ohhhh, I see. I didn't know what they meant by active.

I'm sure in the future the diagnosis will be revised further, and some of these subtypes will get their own categories, because that is a MAJOR difference right there.

What Sora said. That's me exactly.

Not exactly...it's terms invented in a book, that appear to have been generated out of an erronous understanding of AS. It's not out of DSM or anything "official".