Stage Fright and ASD.

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I am okay giving a scripted performance (I didn't do it much as a child) but I am horrible at giving a speech or presentation or being called on in a class or other group--my mind goes blank and I seem to have an out of body experience.

A couple of years ago, I gave two presentations in one day. I prepared and was ready to go. However, I didn't sleep a wink the night before, my heart was racing the whole day and I was experiencing a really odd feeling which I believe was due to a rush of adrenalin. When the second one was over, I got away from everyone as soon as I could and I crashed for days.

I get stage fright but I get through it. It helps if either you or the crowd are drunk.
I did a couple of spelling bees (winning them all except the nationals), one open mic as half of a guitar duo (couple of white russians helped here, and even though we sucked the singer was funny and the crowd loved us), and more recently a completely sober karaoke performance of Biggie Small's "Hypnotize" for a small audience, which I nailed.
Stage fright is worth punching through. You know you're a good guitarist and so do your friends, so do your thing FOR YOURSELF in front of a bunch of random fools who don't matter. If they like it, great. If not, who cares? They're just a bunch of random fools.

i get nervous to really scared depending on what it is.

i hated it in school where they made you get up infront of the class and talk about some random subject that bores everybody (i just hate doing speeches)

It's weird I do get stage fright, but at the same time I absolutely love performing on stage. Like, I'm scared but it's a good kind of scared..... like a roller coaster or a scary movie I guess, it's a rush, and for me a lot of fun. I don't so much like being myself in front of a big group of people, but if I'm performing a role I have a lot of fun. This is true with a lot of actors though. I remember the girl from Will and Grace was on Oprah once, and Oprah let her host part of her show to overcome her fear of being herself on stage, even though she performed for live audiences constantly for Will and Grace.

Yeah performing in character can be fun, I remember in english being Aticus Finch from 'To kill a mockingbird' and being Mustapha Mond from 'Brave new world'.