Does anyone else feel like they don't relate to most Aspies?

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I feel this way most of the time around this site, at least when I judge people on the surface. I don't have any super-specific skills or interests that I pursue (I have specific enough interests to make socializing with many NTs difficult, but not specific enough for me to feel particularly "special" amongst other Aspies), my social skills aren't actually that bad but I'm not very "creative" or relatively emotive, and my perspective on life and my way of feeling fulfilled in life is based very much on being realistic and observant about the world and myself; it is practically my goal in life to understand and appreciate both of those things for what they are and as best and as wholly I can. It is, philosophically, in direct opposition to the prolific escapism that I see Aspies here indulge themselves in (whether it be explicitly stated or implied). This is not to say that I can't enjoy art or a good story, but it's the meanings and the themes that those things express that I end up appreciating the most, not the immediate results of artistic expression or the act of expressing, in and of itself. Most of how I enjoy life, outside of my insatiable desire to learn and interact with things and solve problems, is through listening to music and humor.

Yes, I feel like I don't relate to anyone in general. I've been around other aspies before and we were nothing alike yet I feel the same around neurotypicals as well.