Hi RiverX,

Thanks for the reply. And no, I don't feel misresponded to. Whatever other deficiencies I may have, I do have a well-developed sense of humor. =)

One of the reasons I am looking for opinions is that when/if I am able to see a therapist, I do not want to be diagnosed with depression. Again. I want to be able to intelligently ask questions about other possible conditions and have a better idea if the therapist is simply trying to write me off as another depressive.

I read over some schizoid stuff...and, well, that fits me much more closely than ASPD.

And I can understand Fnordian's point. It is very difficult for people with more than 10-20 IQ points difference to interact in any meaningful way (or so a recent study by...Stanford? Some big college, says). I do not think about the same things as the average person.

They care about American Idol. I think Reality TV is utter garbage. They want to know which one of their friends slept with which other friend. That interests me about as much as watching grass grow.

One thing I do enjoy doing is writing. I constantly have worlds, characters, scenes and such in my head. I can see, in my head, the things I imagine, almost as if I were there. (No, I am not delusional or anything like that.) I read constantly, and I read paragraphs at a time, not sentences. I can read a 600 page novel in less than a day.

Nor do I think the same *way* as the average person does. From what I have observed, my thought patterns are much more...abstract, I guess is the word. I like math and computers, simply because it is fun to visualize the concepts and their interactions in my head. I do a lot of programming, and I can be thinking about multiple concepts at once, including how each will interact with each other at specific points.

(I do not say all this in an attempt to sound arrogant or smart. I am trying to give insight into how I think.)

I really do not understand social interactions. For example...if a girl cheats on her boyfriend, why does the boyfriend go after the guy she slept with? Why do people act differently towards each other outside the workplace as opposed to inside it? Why do schoolkids pick on people new to the school? I could go on. I have not, nor have I ever, understood things like that.

As you may have guessed, I am very direct in real life. I don't generally comment on things unless I am asked (as I don't care enough to waste my time), but when I am, I am very...blunt. My mother calls it tactless (which is another concept I don't understand).

Oddly enough, this seems to have a positive effect in my relationship, and what few friendships I do maintain (two, actually). I maintain them because I find the people interesting, and all of us are very direct.

Well, I didn't mean to ramble on so much. Thanks again for the replies, everyone.