How can I go on living with this horrible disease?

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No, but I do seem to match up pretty well with the info I just imputed. Plus someone diagnosed me with it as a kid (not a doctor but someone at a preschool I was at I believe)

Why not ask your doctor if he/she thinks you have it? Preschool teachers aren't nearly as educated in diagnostic skills as actual doctors are.

I didn't want to speak until 5..... Is that not evidence enough?

No. My dad didn't speak for an entire year of his life (from age 6 to age 7), yet he doesn't have Asperger's. He was just very shy. One symptom does not a diagnosis make. Seriously, go to a professional if you want to be diagnosed.

I also have bad eye contact.... It's pretty apparent. I wouldn't have come here if it wasn't. I'm just really good at hiding it. So good that it is indeed possible for me to live a normal life but then I have depression and I blew my last chance at a ltr with my 16 year old girlfriend.

@Lecks- Thanks for the Troll Spray. It's still in the carpet, but it doesn't smell as bad now.

Look, I'm a hypochondriac. I've diagnosed myself with everything from a hysterical pregnancy to a kidney infection, and every time I've been wrong. Self-diagnosis doesn't work, since it's so easy to get worked up over a few select symptoms and ignore the rest of the symptoms that are necessary to have in order to be diagnosed with something. You're proving that beautifully, by the way. So why not just go to your doctor and ask him/her about whether or not you have AS?

I have the intense swinging interests, the bad social skills, and the repetitive nature. Doesn't that cover all main bases?

Those are just a few of the outer symptoms, a lot of it is based on how your brain works, how information is processed. There are a lot of disorders out there with almost identical symptoms, but the causes are what sepparate them.
Honestly, it doesn't really matter if you have it or not. You'll still have problems to deal with, issues to work through and a life to lead. Having autism doesn't change that, it only adds a couple of issues or changes the priority of your problems.

The point is that sitting around and wishing you were someone else isn't going to change anything, if you truly hate who you are then all I can suggest is trying to find something you're good at and focusing on that. Get your mind off the discontent you're feeling and focus on some positive aspect of your life.
It won't fix your problems, but it'll give you time to work things out.

That's about as helpfull as I can be on this subject.

Good points, Lecks, but I think you're wasting your breath. Obvious troll is obvious.

So you're eighteen and you already own nice suits and Lincoln town car?

I'd say you're doing better (at least financially....and believe me....that's probably more important than having great social skills) than most eighteen y/o's and plenty of 50 y/o's with or without Asperger's.

Alot of us here have WAY worse things to worry about than not being able to get a girlfriend or something.


So I for one just can't feel too sorry for you.

You need help if you seriously think being different is a disease.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Yeah well at least you're not some stateless, one armed refugee living off a handful of rice a day.
AS may suck, but it's not the worst thing in the world.

At least you don't have cancer, which is actually worse to have, than any sort of autism.

Some of us are actually highly valued and productive members of society. I know that some here have very special jobs (some are musicians, law enforcement/forensics, labgeeks, and i guess many are IT professionals), so please cut the "ZOMG Aspergers suxx0rz!! !!111"-crap.

If you are unable to harness anything productive your special interests, i'm sorry for that fact. Just dont ASSume that everyone is having a horrible time suffering and all that.

Yes, i'd like a girlfriend, but thats not going to happen. I do not have "it" and i will never have "it", i've basically given up on something that is not realistically possible to find - a girl that could accept me for who i am and not expect me to be like everyone else. I've had problems keeping a job, but at least i've had jobs unlike one of my neurotypical friends who did not have one until he were 31 something.

There are upsides and downsides to everything. And some get only downsides, because someone else has already taken all the upsides - that's life. If you do not like it - change it: Do what you can with the stuff you have.