This is why I developed DID. That feeling of total isolation is not a fun thing to feel. People often mistake our differences in the way we think as a lack of interest in interacting with the world. Really, we just don't know how to interact with it.

One of the best descriptions of AS I've ever read, was from somebody on the spectrum explaining it to somebody who wasn't. He explained it as 'everybody not on the spectrum runs Windows, you get a nice shiny user interface where you click a button and get a response. All of your interaction is handled by hidden code which is automatically picked up and transmitted without any effort from the user. Whereas those of us on the spectrum run Linux, every action requires methodical coding. Interaction between the two systems is possible, but it is not easy and requires the Linux system to do most of the leg work.' I really couldn't have put it better myself.