Soliciting a non-binding, unoffical WrongPlanet diagnosis

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I hope over the next few weeks and months to do more reading here to try to get an idea about where I fit in alond the neuro-atypical scale. Is a diagnosis important to me? I can't figure that out. i sense that regardless, ther are people here who share some of the differences that i have been troubled with and that there is comfort in this.
I like to label and catagorize things, although I wish I didn't, and appreciate the folly of this.
Anyway, what I am trying to say is, I want your opinions of whether I might be aspie.
I thik the thing I indentify with the most of the things I have read about AS is the social difficulties. I have adapted somewhat now, being 33, but as a child I had no ability to know what to say and when to say it and often said inappropriate and offensive things, could never pick up on non-verbal language, and was completely confused about why it was so easy for other kinds to just laugh and play and just plain flow with each other.
I am very sensorily sensitive, and I get sensory overload all the time. I was put in a special class as a kid, but not diagnosised with anything but 'behaviour issues' because it was very easy for the other kids to tease me until i cried or had a meltdown (that they found very thrilling to watch apparently.)
The things I dont identify with about AS is routine; I prefer constant change. that is my routine. I move around (I am nomadic now, travelling from farm to farm doing work exchange) and I change my diet often.
Ten years ago I developed what I have (without an offical diagnosis) refer toi as a chronic motor tic disorder. If I try to focus on my bodily sensations, meaning bypassing my brain's filter of the world around me, my body twitches, jerks or spasms.
I get easily distracted, but can get absorbed in a task and forget everyting else, hygiene, food, other people, etc.
I was clumsy as a child and I felt I had to teach myself how to hold my body and move and what not by watching movies. I cannot for the life of me put words to my emtions beyond knowing when i am happy, very happy, depressed, or anxious.
I feel i am constantly on guard that i might babble or say the wrong things or make the wrong gestures.
I could go on, but if it was me reading this i would not have been able to keep my attention on it that long.

oh yeah. I can't stand small talk. like the world has so much serious problems and we wate them talking about nothing. I could never stabd that. I am often blunt, but it's not as if i can't lie. I just cant remember my lies, so i dont bother. easier to be honest. i love to procrastinate too.

Here, have a test: http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Takr that rdos aspie quiz and hang around WP a while. My belief is that no one is more qualified to dx a person as aspie than that person.

If you find that you see yourself looking back at you from these pages. If your story is similar - then you are likely aspie, dx or no.

I am 53 and self dx. I would not trust a probably NT shrink with my head abyway.