Something that drives me crazy...

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is when I'm talking about something like, for example, movies, with someone, and the conversation is going very well until they go something like, "You're really into (whatever it is) aren't you?" That's when I start to feel like a freak. I imagine it's my Asperger's that causes me to remember certain details about things that others don't, but the reason that it's so especially frustrating is that in these situations I was trying to connect with people and feel "normal." but get bounced back to, as I said, feeling like a freak.

I can relate.

That sucks. Cant win for losing.

One exception to that might be sports. You can be furiously geeky about sports trivia, and sports stats, and monologue about it, and its considered normal and socially acceptable.

It's generally an NT thing to say as a hint that you might be talking too much about a subject.
Unless you only mentioned something briefly or in passing about a subject I wouldn't take it too personally.
A lot of people do not enjoy or know how to engage in deeper discussion.

Can vouch for the sport side of it.

Though, even sport discussion can be a competition and you will get blanked if you're winning.

Sometimes it can come in handy.

Like one time at my school there was this group of kids arguing about the differences between damascus steel and valyrian steel (from game of thrones) and i corrected them about a wrong point one made, and then they asked me more questions and i ended up talking for like 10 minutes about the history and structure of it and they were impressed, and so now i made freinds with them.

Huh, I thought this was a normal response and this was something people say to everyone.

For example... "You like Sonic don't you? DON'T YOU!?" It's hard to describe the tone in other's voices through text but it's like them being sarcastic and not truly sentimental. They are trying to get you irritated, to make it known that they see you as a "freak". Although, this can be perceived in a false way, but it's usually blatantly obvious.

You can go on a casual conversation with someone and then they pick that one thing about you and start asking you questions about it. Not that they are actually interested or have something to relate to you with. They're just trying to pry you open as to see why in Hell you'd be interested in such a thing so they can use it against you later. It is kind of a double-edged sword situation, just need to watch out for the "red flags" and make your decision based on it.