What's the difference between asperger's & being introve

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I believe Asperger's/Autism is a continuum that everyone is on. Wondering is being an introvert is just being on a place on the continuum that just doesn't look so much like Asperger's but is.

There are extroverted aspies, though.

Well, if it is that case, it will make more sense to consider that autism/asperger is a place in the introvert continuum than that the introvertion is a place in the autism continuum (it is two different ways of saying the same thing, of course, but it will makes more sense to use introvertion - 50% of the population - instead of autism - 1% of the population - as the "standard").

However, there are reasons to think that there are different things:

- autistics are not necessarily introverts (after all, one of the possible symptoms of aspergers is initiating talks about special interests with people that we barely know)

- I am not sure if there is a connection between restricted interests and introvertion

- usually is assumed that autistics are good at details; in this specific point (if this is true), autism will be more similar to extroversion: in "normal" personalities, I think that are usually the extroverts that are good at details, while introverts are more of the "highly abstract thinking" type.

15% of the pop is introvert, 70% is a mix (some more one way some more the other), 15% are extroverts.

For being diagnosed with an ASD you need to have a clinically significant impairment in different areas of functioning.
I do not know if this applies for being introvert as well.
Having an ASD also does not necessarily mean that one has to be introvert.

This is simply a question about where we put the lines between "introvert", "mix" and "extrovert".

true. Sorry for correcting you. Now that you pointed that out I realized that was only a small part of what you were talking about, an insignificant detail.

This is a good read on the minds of introverts, though it doesn't address how introversion compares to ASDs:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles ... -introvert

I enjoy social interaction but then I need significant downtime to process.

A study comparing autistic traits (measured by Baron-Cohen AQ) with the "five factors" of personality

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2004.04.022

According to the study, there was a correlation of 0.44 between AQ and introvertion. It is a big value, but probably not big enough that we can consider "introvertion" and "autism" simply quantitative variants of the same underlying phenomenon. According to the study, there was a high correlation between introvertion and problems with social skills (0.66), a moderate correlation with problems with communication and "theory of mind" (0.15) and none correlation with attention to detail/rigid routines.

But, thinking better in the issue, can be argued that the "autistics are 1% of the population" is also a question where we put the lines between "autistic" and "non-autistic".

[I confess that one of the reasons why I wrote that introverts are 50% of the population was to help the fight against the internet myth that "introverts are 25%, extroverts are 75%"; this goes against everything that I have read about that - almost all research show a normal distribution of the introvertion/extrovertion dimension - but that factoid is constantly repeated in internet foruns]