Can inferiority complex cause Asperger Syndrome?

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In some cases it's the whole chicken and egg arguement all over again. I don't remember having a lot of Aspy symptoms and my mom told me SA didn't really show up till middleschool.
So I believe I mostly have SA with Panic disorder, but enough Aspy traits to make a rather miserable mix. Many diagnosis are so confusing IMHO. It would be good for the DSM to break some of the categories down a bit more, because the difference between LF and HF Aspergers or dysmythia and sever depression makes for a huge gap and much confusion

My partner used to always say that while it was apparent that I have problems, my main issue was just low self esteem, and while it is true, I do have low self esteem, it has to do with the constant frustration I experience in the world...so when he would always write me off that way, I would always say..."why do you think I have low self esteem?
Whatever traits I have, I have experienced since I was very young. Otherwise I would not have been...how-you-say...singled out all the time since I was in pre-school and whatnot.

Things like stress, low self esteem, inferiority complexes, social anxiety etc do increase problems that come with AS and living with AS can cause these problems, It can be a very hard cycle to break. like ive said in other threads there is a big psychological factor to the negative side of aspergers.

I think it's the other way around. Starting out with something and then getting what some call a "secondary disability". Being too self conscious isn't really a "disability" but I think something like AS can create circumstances that erode one's self esteem to the point one puts an over emphasis on one's self and it's shortcomings, sometimes even positive attributes. So, that things are overly magnified. Either horribly or seen as unbelievable, miraculous advantages, depending on if it's a flaw or a gift.
Exaggeration...hyperbole...occurs.

To me, it's the cause of the social anxiety.

My fundamental problem with social situations is that I literally get disoriented. At parties as a little kid, I'd wander around in fear because I litearlly had no idea what was going on or who was who. I always chalked it up to my poor vision, but that I know about Asperger's, I thikn it was more fundamental than just my vision (or chicken/egg).

Also, I hate false propriety, and I hate having to put up with people I don't like, ideas I don't like, etc. I hate being told what to do by people I don't know. For example, when my wife and I were engaged, we went to her friend's wedding together. It was the first time I'd ever been to a wedding as a guest, with a date. Almost every wedding I'd been to had been a family wedding, or my dad was the organist, and I was assisting him, or something.
So we walked in, and this usher just comes up and grabs Mary's arm and takes her away from me, and I'm totally thrown off by what he's doing, and I want to hit him.

Or our own wedding: people saying, "Now you have to cut the cake," or "Now you have to do this," and it just fills me with what I now know to be autistic rage.

So, I guess I have *anxiety* that I'll be disoriented, or that something will happen to send me into a rage.

But now that I understand my Asperger's, ironically, I have less social anxiety, because I have a better idea of what's going on with me.

Ultimately, I'm not really *afraid* of social situations: I just don't know what to do with them.

I guess the problem when you talk about "anxieties" is what, exactly, you're anxious about. If you know *why* you're anxious, then it's not necessarily an anxiety disorder--just like if your dog and your grandpa both just died, you lost your job, and you got foreclosed on, and you're depressed, that doesn't mean you have "depression" as a disorder. If you just met the girl of your dreams, just got the job of your dreams, just won the lottery, etc., and you're depressed, then you have a depression disorder.

So, with Asperger's, it's a set of issues *related to Asperger's*, like having difficulty with body language, that may cause social anxiety. Someone else just has the anxieties.

As for inferiority complex, I have always been convinced that I'm intellectually superior to just about everyone I've ever met (though plenty of tests and practical experience have shown that to be true, so it's not delusions of grandeur, so I know I'm not schizophrenic).

Can Asperger Syndrome cause inferiority complex?

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I think for me my social anxiety didn't get this bad until I was diagnosed. I was anxious to begin with but it wasn't as bad until I learned what AS was.

I still have this problem of getting out or socializing. When I socialize I can't tell how I akward I sound to that person or what part is related to AS and what isn't.

I've always felt contempt for those who "had it easy" or those who were skilled in things they could actually get out and show. Sometimes I made up for that lost time by drinking just to be more "sociable" or improve on my looks, or getting serious with any thing involving a competition. None of those ever really filled that void and I'm sure NTs have character defects as well.

I don't normally put in NTs into a category just people who are more outgoing. So my inferiority complex I don't think just stemmed from anywhere. I had this problem most of my life and wondering why I was so akward or couldn't make friends like any "normal" human being.

We are different, and different doesn't necessarily mean inferior.