I know it could be AS, but could it have been other things

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i admit that i do have some symptoms of AS, but im very sure i dont exhibit other traits such as obsessive compulsive behavious, preference to routines, or stimming or echolalia. i didnt go for a diagnose, maybe i will though, but that depends,

but i wonder, could there have been any other symptoms or conditions or psychological that could have the same traits (but not all of them) of AS?

you mean like exposure to coal heating leaks, tramatic brain injury, oxygen depravation, coma, spinal injuries, trauma related PTSD-ect.

well yes, I'm sure-you'll need a lifelong behavioral analysis to be certain.

Can anyone think of any others?

I think so. I'm not a "typical" AS case. I make a perfect NT first impression. No meltdowns, no stims, nothing out of the NT ordinary behaviors except for (very) mild clumsiness. However, long-term relationships with humans have proven impossible. Not even family. And taking things literally.

I don't think what I have is Asperger's, but Asperger's is the closest to what I have that is known nowadays. In the previous generation I would've identified with autism, because that was the closest. And probably in the generation before that, schizophrenia or something like that. I think in a few generations they'll have a name for what I have. Unfortunately, I'll never live to know what it is.

Some personality/social disorders can mimic the social signs of AS. I tend to look at these if a person doesn't exibit stimming and sensory problems, but has the other signs. I have the social symptoms of AS, and the diagnosis that fits me is avoidant personality disorder. ^_^

From what I understand AS is the mild end of the autistic spectrum. If you generally get very anxious in social situations but perhaps in school it wasnt an issue maybe its social anxiety? Its something I believe you can develop. But try and remember anything in school that you realise now might have seemed obviously socially out of place. Saying one thing when all the other kids said another even though you know they wanted to say what you said, for example. I believe thats an AS type of thing to do.