Autistic Spectrum?

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Can't always read the emotions and intentions of other people
Ex-video game borderline obsessive
Avoids eye contact
Accidentally tactless
Takes things literally/makes literal puns on expressions
Afraid of doing something wrong in social situations
Devises ways of feeling more in control of life
Afraid that people are being judgemental
Very formal in language even in established friendships
Very good with words
Finds free time stressful
Wide taste in classic and/or unusual music

Does it sound like my friend is on the autistic spectrum?

I think a lot of those sound autistic.

Here's some more;

Can't stand germs - likes everything very, very clean
Fussy eater, dislikes lots of foods (but loves others)
Will get bored when eating and sometimes only eat a few bites
Won't use train/aeroplane toilets because they're unhygienic
Stays up into the small hours of the morning

Hey, thanks. Do you mean those and the first ones I posted as well, or just the second postings? This may be me being stereotypical but my friend is not completely ruled by rituals, which is my (limited) view of OCD. My friend will brave situations with all of these and considers herself to be fairly relaxed about them, though her quirks and difficulties are still apparant in certian situations.

First sounds Autistic Spectrum
Second is predominatly OCD seeming but the last setence...could be either.

let's see here

I speak in metaphores most of the time.
I can't stand organization.
I hate not doing new things.
I am obsessed with learning everything I get my hands on.
I hate people who say I can't or will never be able to.
I have many friends.

So??..

I was trying to illustrate a game to my friend - but in real life we were sitting at a table, and there were other people around, so I couldn't get up and show my friend the game myself, so I represented a minature person by standing the index finger and third finger of my right hand up, so they looked like a tiny person with two long legs. It was a game where you had to mime an action and say you were doing something completely different, and then the second person would mime what you said you were doing, and you'd ask them what they were doing, and so on. So I said "imagine my fingers are me - and I'm walking around..." and I made the minature person (i.e. the two fingers) walk along the table; "So then you'd ask me 'what are you doing?' and I'd be walking around or whatever, and I'd say something completely different, like 'I'm boiling a kettle'". And my friend looked completely blank and incomprehending, and said "but you're not you're sitting at a table making your fingers move all over the table". So I said "But I'd say I was boiling a kettle when really I was walking around, and that would be part of the game". My friend just said something like "But that would just be wrong!" My friend in question couldn't get that I was using my fingers as a representation of a person, or the idea that lying about what that person was doing was a step in the game. It may have been bad explanation, but I explained it as clearly as I knew how.

My friend also likes diagrams/lists, got uptight about something recently and calmed down by making a list.

Probably right! I don't explain things that well... Anyway, he thinks he could well have it, and is pushing for an evaluation.

That's where I learned it as well!!

I always used to say it sarcastically.

I used to say it in a resigned and overworked manner, like a parent who has a ton of worries and has to arrive at the scene of the oddity to sort out their children -