lol. I have a friend who seems like he has a lot of AS symptoms who does that... He's definitely way more socially impaired than me in the aspect of saying/doing inappropriate things, anyway(though he has WAY more friends, and it seems like he knows everyone somehow.. which is the only reason i never really brought up aspergers to him.. because whatever he's doing is somehow working alright.. at a glance, it seems like he's more unaware of what to do socially than i am at times, but, even so, the end result is still that whole social thing just seems to end up working out for him much easier). I'm more the if-i-don't-know-what-i'm-supposed-to-do-then-i-don't-do-much-at-all type... plus i get uncomfortable in a lot of situations(like with people getting close to me or talking about certain things), and, therefore, avoid causing them or bringing up topics that i'm uncomfortable talking about with certain people.. So, that prevents me from doing a lot of socially "wrong" things. Plus, i usually try pretty hard to not offend people, at least with most things that i've learned people get offended by. My friend, however, doesn't seem to get uncomfortable with a lot of things or have a clue about what offends other people. He'll come up and hug me or something, and i'll just be the typical aspie-like robot and just stand there stiff and wait for him to let go. He also came over to me the other day, poked my stomach, and asked if i'd gained weight lately, XD.
There does seem to be a different "spectrum" of symptoms for different people with AS, from what i'm been seeing so far.... The same inability to interpret social cues can go either drastically one way or drastically the other with either being seen unintentionally as obnoxious, or being seen as shy. With one, you don't know what to say, so you say something inappropriate... with the other, you don't know what to say, so you don't say a whole lot. and then, sometimes i guess it goes one way or the other with the situation. It's funny how that works.