Extroverted Aspie?

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Nobody would EVER call me anything but an extreme introvert, but I realize within the past few months to my amazement I am MORE extroverted than my quite social brother. I just appear introverted because I desire deep, meaningful interaction and not superficial nonsense. When I am comfortable with a person or group I am quite outspoken and happy. If you need any further proof look at how many posts someone as "shy" as I am have made on this site!

I am quiet around most groups but that's the same reason extroverts would be quiet in a group of French or Spanish speakers. It's simply too awkward and difficult to be the life of the party.

Both me and my father are extroverted Asperger's. My older brother has severe autism and he is an extravert as well. People think that all of us are introverts though, unless they get to know us well.
My mother told me that when he was young my father would start talking with random strangers in the street or on the bus and even invite them home. But he just did this with men. In fact he didn't approach women this way, reason why my mother thought he was a very shy guy when she first met him.
As a child I was an extravert, when I was bullied I took an "introvert appearance" as a shield but I always remained an extravert. In fact, after years of not being bullied now I got back to being a real extravert. But people still think I am an extravert at first, and they did so even when I was a child because all my life my lack of social ability was mistaken with introversion, I guess.
Now I do small talk with no problem, my real problems in conversations are that I can't filter the background noise, I get distracted easily, I jump from a topic to another and I find most topics people talk about boring. I guess this all makes me look like an introvert, but when you are talking tp me about a topic I find interesting, you can easily say I am an extravert.
Anyway, I "break into" people's houses unannounced, I interrupt conversations, I tell jokes (that few people understand) and I laugh a lot.
Some days ago I talked to the guy I was in love with and he said he didn't love me back for the moment, I went to the house of a friend of ours that lived nearby and there I started crying. I even stayed for the dinner. So yeah that's pretty much like breaking into people's houses