Being treated like a 'disorder' is getting depressing...

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Then maybe you are not a true Aspie. There are certain characteristics that define a person with Asperger's, and one them is having a particular pattern of brain dysfunction. (And let me just remind you that where there is brain dysfunction, there is another part of the brain compensating by working harder.) The social part of the brain doesn't work (which helps to explain how people can work to overcome their social awkwardness - the brain is constantly changing, adapting, growing, shifting. It can take a lot of effort, however, to make it work how you want it to. Like a paraplegic learning to walk again. The connections can be rebuilt, but very slowly, with a lot of effort, and depending on the damage, maybe not at all). But other areas may work better than that of your average NT.