Wow. Maybe the only place to have this discussion is the internet. I found out that I have Asperger's late in life When my grandson was diagnosed I immediately got a bunch of books on the subject (clue 1) and started reading. I wasn't very far into the research when I said "Hey, this is my biography." Doing more research and some online testing, I figure that I'm probably a little further down on the ASD scale, but I've never bothered with a formal diagnosis since I'm 64 now and a diagnosis isn't really going to change anything.
As an online quiz I strongly recommend
Aspergers Adult AQ Test Quiz Online: Autism Spectrum Quotient since it is relatively detailed, no strings and gives an immediate result. It seems to be fairly accurate.
I've already had most of the problems in life that Asperger's/Autism (I think that Asperger's has now been officially folded into Autism Spectrum Disorders scale) and I've adapted to some of them (staring at a point just over the nose makes people think that you're looking them "in the eye" for example) and been functionally disabled by others, but I'm in a fairly comfortable spot now.
I live alone and most of my contact with the outside world is now by computer - I actually like Facebook, probably because I have a small assortment of friends, most of whom were part of my life in the past and a few I've "met" through my other friends "liking their posts" or suggesting them to me. I also belong to two closed groups of people with the same odd physical problem I've had for the last five years - also a great use of the internet, since we are scattered all over the world and would never meet someone with the same diagnosis otherwise.
Back to ASD there is definitely a genetic component. My daughter has been formally diagnosed after her son was, there's me, and I strongly suspect one of my brothers, my mother, an uncle, and my grandfather on the maternal side.
Please note that going on and on in text is one of my symptoms - that and I'm the queen of parenthetical remarks. I had started with a bunch of multi quotes, but I could have done most of the thread that way. Here are some that especially got my attention.
That was me until after my grandson's diagnosis - see above. Knowing isn't going to change anything now but it is such a strong validation. Just the fact of not being alone in this is a major relief/help. We're fairly close to the same age, and when we were young Autism was only diagnosed for people with the most severe problems. We were just told to buck up, buckle down, try harder, get along better, etc.
It has been amazing to see how much help early diagnosis has been for my grandson. He has gotten training in how to develop (or at least fake) some of the social skills, has had IEPs in school and been on that list of kids that teachers get, so at least they have known what his issues were and how to best react for some of them. There's no cure, but he learned skills at a very young age that I had to figure out very slowly as an adult.
But it can take a lot of luck and/or trials to get there. I had a very hard time getting and holding jobs before I figured out which areas worked for me and which didn't.
It took a lot of fairly disastrous attempts for me to figure out what I could and couldn't deal with. Oddly enough, some very people oriented jobs did work, and I finally figured out hat it was the ones where I had the knowledge or ability and they were asking me for help. I absolutely couldn't do any type of cold call work where I had to start the interaction.
Things I could do were specialty sales (I once managed and then owned a garden center) and bar-tending. Where I came into my own was working with computer software, before formal computer degrees even touched on PCs. I started with databases, got into doing formal tech support and some web design.
A professor friend of my mother's once confessed that while he did go pheasant and quail hunting he never shot at any birds. It was just a great and socially acceptable way for him to take long autumn walks with his dogs.
When I was in high school I did quite a lot of "fishing" after I discovered that I could take a boat out on the lake to read by myself, and if I had a fishing pole out people would quit bugging me about whether I was okay. I even did catch some fish inadvertently.
I even do okay with Facebook. Asynchronous communication is great. I don't have to participate, but when I do there is no need for back and forth. I can consider what I'm going to say and, unlike verbal communication, I can edit before I "say" it.
Mine is olfactory. One thing I don't like about not smoking is that my sense of smell is much better now. That was an issue on previous quit attempts, but not as much with vaping. Maybe vaping reduces the sense of smell somewhat, too.
Okay, a long enough book. I'll be back though. Asperger's/Autism has become one of my intense interests now.
Just think, two batteries so I don't have to charge so often, plus all the power I need if I ever desire. It's got a magnetic door for the battery too which is way cool. The chip is one of the best programmable chips that Pioneer4 you puts out. It's also got a reversible screen layout and the whole nine yards. It's probably too much mod for me but I know I won't have to ever upgrade 
Not in the foreseeable future anyway.
