How to explain aspergers to friend?

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I am not quite sure if i know how to explain what aspergers is and the significance it has in my life.I am an articulate person but i dont know how to sum it up.espeically to someone who dosent know what it is. I met this person through my therapist..and in the future if i want to let a firend know this would be helpful.

(also any alt. therapies you can reccomend)

Maybe something like:

By the way... I have Asperger's syndrome. It's on the mild end of the autistic spectrum. People with Asperger's have social difficulties and are usually prone to intense special interests. The social difficulties are usually caused by not understanding non-verbal queues, rigid thinking, or because the person is too wrapped up in there interest to have time for others. I [insert personal stuff related to Asperger's]

show them or e-mail them greenturtle's guide to aspergers that helped my friend and someone said they read a whole book about aspergers and that guide summed it all up
[it also has pictures]