What hit me was "Reality" I keep hearing about it, face reality, and other variations. When I ask to have it explained, reality is reality.
I have a perceptual differance. As Carlos Catanada put it, A Seperate Reality.
As far as machines, I have X-ray vision and more, I can put them in my head and design them, or tell why they are not working right.
I dove into WP, for I was learning. There is an other reality about the place. Many are trying to fit in with the world, some are trying to fit in with themselves. The later group has a lot of common features.
Somedays it is hard to see, but I find many who share my reality.
Several of the comments reached me, that AS should have it's own education path.
I never thought anything was wrong with me, it was the other people. Their minds are closed to the wonders of life, and their goal has been to close mine. Failing that they could at least try to make me unhappy.
I have never understood, but comments from AS people I understand.
Not being alone gives me hope. We do seem to have a common center, culture, which for people who never met, says they are not scatterbrained misfits, needing treatment, but a subtype of human.
I am not alone, WP has doubled since I came. Many are finding the words they need to hear.