@Richard: I wanted to reply yesterday the essence of your reply, but somehow I didn't. Well said. Societies are biased against people who are different. Both sides must make an effort to change and and to accept others.

I have to say, I have the same experience with what you mentioned in small talks. Several times I went into too much details, and sometimes irrelevant. So, I avoid these talks altogether. I haven't been diagnosed officially, but I think I have some traits of Asperger's Syndrome. I don't understand people's intentions and questions, and the proper/expected answer.

Complaining about the answer "Fine" for the question "How was your day?" is somewhat unfair to me, because the expectation is one sided. Neurotypical people expect autistic people to be typical although their mind is physically atypical. Why don't we understand the other side why they behave this way? Follow up questions may guide the conversation because these kind of questions are tricky to understand. It could be a question like "How are you?". People don't expect a detailed answer for that question. It could be a meaningless question that is used for acknowledgement only.

For the point which was made earlier on social skills that would resolve the issue, the difference between neurotypical people say with social anxiety and ASD people when both learn social skills, is that for the first group, these skills become an integral part of their character at the emotional level with practice and they probably will like it and become social "butterflies", which isn't the case for people with Asperger's. They are always intellectual level skills. They need to make an effort all the time. That's why maybe people with Asperger's may not appear genuine in their responses and connections, which may put neurotypical people off.

People are working hard to alleviate the stigma of MIs, and I think saying "this is how the world works" goes against this effort, because it basically says, you will never be part of society unless you become "normal". Normal in our world doesn't mean right, but, and I concur here, it means outnumbering only. That's why I have so much hatred to this world, because I cannot fit, and no one cares for the slightest effort I make to fit. They think I don't want to fit. If they can use me, they will do that (and they did), but to be on a personal connection with me, no way. There is a reason why ASD people tend to isolate and some of them compensate in realms other than the social realm.