Hey there.
I hadn't seen the video you linked before but it was actually very good. I'm sending a link for that to my family members. I relate to about 99% of what she was saying, one of the issues I really don't relate to is I don't really like touching people unless I'm in a relationship with them.
Though as a child I loved bodily contact with family and friends. I think it was likely the negative reaction to that contact from peers as I got older that made me become uncomfortable with it myself. Just as I have pulled away from social interaction due to years of failed attempts. Like the woman in the video, I prefer one on one social interaction and even then I only have a very small number of people I truly enjoy doing that with.
When she started speaking about eye contact issues I had a little laugh to myself, it's one of the things my psychiatrist first noticed about me and I've always known myself that I don't like eye contact, but when she mentioned it in the video I realised that I was ok looking at her eyes when she wasn't looking at the camera but as soon as she made eye contact with the camera my eyes shot off to the side and started looking at the palm trees! Gave me a little giggle.
As TravelingLady pointed out, Asperger's is part of the Autism spectrum. Not all symptoms are present in everybody on the spectrum and those that are may be very severe in one person and very mild in another. It is never easy to get a 'one test fits all' online really. You do need a qualified psychiatrist to make the ultimate call. A few of the quizzes you've linked to have been taken in threads on this forum by numerous people who are a mix of diagnosed and un-diagnosed and there is a lot of crossover in the results.
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