Do you deny your ASD?

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I really cannot tell someone at work that I have AS. I just can't. I feel really embarrassed to look someone in the eye and say, ''I have Aspergers Syndrome''. I just can't do it. Sometimes I hint little things like, ''I sometimes feel a bit socially unconfident when dealing with the public too much'', but people just take me as a shy person and just ignore it. OK, I have done some odd behaviour which I regret. I have a bit of a strange phobia about toddlers, and when I see one in the shop where I work I just have to get out of the way. I'm not saying it's part of my AS (because I've heard a lot of Aspies like small children), but I think that the signs I have shown of me not liking toddlers probably have made other colleagues think I'm a bit odd there. Once the manager asked me to put some children's books out, but then I saw a 2 year old standing about right where I needed to go, and I stubbornly said to the manager, ''ohh there's a child out there, I will do it in a minute,'' not caring what she might have thought, and I marched back in the store room. She looked at me a bit odd, and I wish I hadn't reacted like that now. But those sorts of little things I do don't resemble Autism in other people's eyes - I think they just think I'm a bit phobic over children (maybe from a bad experience I might have had in the past involving children, for all they know), or just some sort of obsessive compulsory disorder. I think I do actually resemble OCD traits to people. And you don't have to be Aspie to have OCD (stereotype found!) I know a couple of NTs who have shown traits of OCD. My mum's friend developed an OCD with the back door - she kept on going back and checking it was locked so much that in the end the door handle broke, because of the constant pulling at it to check that it was locked. And it wasn't just this - she was far worse at other things too. And I know another NT who has such a big phobia of dogs that she literally screams (no matter where she is!) if one comes near her. So not all odd behaviour means Autism, and judging by my odd behaviour I don't think people see me as Autistic - I think they just see me as a NT with traits of something what NTs can have. Ah well, I don't mind being mistaken for that.