I'm pretty much the same as The_little_didgee with this. I've been told in the past that I'm "boring", that I "don't look interested", that talking to me is "like getting blood from a stone"... I wasn't diagnosed until recently so I never knew why people felt this way around me, now I have a better understanding of it.

I've never had a face to face conversation with another AS person from the perspective of being an NT so I can't say for sure about how that is from their perspective. From mine, I hate conversing with people 90% of the time. I find it difficult and tiring, small talk bores me and confuses me all at the same time. Usually when people think I look like I'm not interested though, it's actually the opposite, my brain is processing constantly trying to think up things to speak about that the other person may find interesting. Usually I struggle with actually opening my mouth to speak though because I always think what I have to say will bore them (because I've been told in the past that I'm boring) or that I may be interrupting somebody or they may not appreciate a topic change etc.

The one thing people agree on is that I'm a good listener... If only they knew it's because I don't know when to speak and what to talk about when I do haha.