First of all thank you to everyone who responded.

The are looking for diagnostic confirmation of schizotypal personality disorder.

Good question. My answer has evolved as I've learned more about it over the last few months. I'll answer this more down below at the bottom of this post. I've never given it much thought to tell you the truth, until recently. Over the years however, many parents and partners of people with Asperger's have asked me if I had been tested for it. Most recently, two people (from different families) from my sangha (church) who are parents of children with Asperger's. I had shared personal stories from my childhood that led them to believe that I had a high likelihood of being somewhere on the autism spectrum.

With a recent ludicrous diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder, I decided I wanted to know what the truth was and began researching. What I found was liberating in a sense - recognizing myself. As you said:

I am a genius and yes, I've learned to compensate tremendously.

One of the most powerful experiences that I've had that led me to believe there is something to this is anecdotal only and completely un-quantifiable, but it is my experience and it does not need to be measureable to be valid for me. It is recent conversations with someone who is autistic - and not a high functioning autistic. My brain doesn't hurt afterwards after talking to her. There is only one other person in the world that I experience that with and it is my wife. After fifty years of life, to find only the second person I can talk to that I am not exhausted after talking to...that is noteworthy to me.

But okay, on to the quantifiable reasons for thinking I may have Asperger's:

As a child I never had friendships with other children. Ever. I failed in every social situation I was ever in. I fell in love with astronomy at age four; I wanted to be an astronomer for my entire childhood. By six years old, I was studying astrophysics. I was a musical prodigy. I had no other interests. Music and astronomy - and math as it related to both. My memory is prodigious, but only on certain subjects.

"Inside voice" was my mother's lifetime mantra - I learned to be silent and not speak. I have a severe case of prosopagnasia or face blindness. I cannot recognize anyone, even family who is outside of their natural environment. i.e. I can recognize the postmaster at the post office I go to daily but not if he is at the supermarket.

I take everything literally and have to translate it in my head before speaking. For instance, at my first therapy session my therapist asked me what brought me there. I answered, "My car." I can't answer questions on these darn psych tests, or even forms and questionnaires unless my wife is there to translate for me. As a child, I could not understand humor at all. At all. Never. I have since studied the subject extensively and compensate effectively.

In social situations that I cannot get out of, I tell stories that history has shown are effective and have become such an accomplished storyteller that people don't want to interrupt and talk back - which is why I learned to do it, so I don't have to make small talk with them - because I flat can't do it without exhausting myself and needing to go hide in a closet for two hours afterwards to detox.

I get sensory overload very easily and will shut down when overwhelmed. Changes to routine will send me into a tailspin and only a very focused effort will prevent a meltdown. As a child I could not make eye contact with people, though that was mostly beaten out of me and I learned to compensate the rest of the way - but still with people I trust implicitly (like this other therapist I have), I resort to old behavior. Despite my lack of ability to get along with other children, I was forced into sports to help me gain coordination, which I lacked.

I have echolalia. I am the master of circumstantial speech. I got straight A's in school throughout my pre-college years except for a complete deficiency during elementary school in handwriting to which I uniformly received C's.

I just realized how long I've been going on because my wife just said 'good night' so I'm going to stop there. Probably too much....