Do you laugh when you look directly in peoples eyes?

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It's becoming clear that my symptoms of AS are becoming much more prominant as I'm becoming older. And my misunderstanding of other people, my utter dislike in public awareness, my isolation, lack of goals, relationships, perception of other people. I feel like the condition is more of a curse than one box with with gifts.
In public today, the stares I received overwhelmed my anxiety levels, they're expecting me to know, to share their thoughts regarding a problem, my appearance, behaviour, fashion what? I've simply reviewed several complicated thought pattern scenarios that might have constributed to what I see as biased attention, all wrong of course. I confronted someone who didn't retriet from making eye contact with me, even when I responded. I asked why it is they're staring. They know something I know, or disagree with something that I should be aware of. It frustrates me, it is a national social response that everyone responds to in the same way, except they expect me to know what they're thinking.
Staff members watching me as I walk into the canteen, expecting me to behave in the way that is appropriate.
I just want to ammend myself, so that the response I receive is nill and to feel okay with myself and remain anominous rather than on public display. The anxiety which originated from the effects of OCD is what now contributes to the effects of negative popularity. My inability to convey the right emotions to this behaviour, whether to be happy or sad, angry? The anxiety drives me to respond in some way that I don't feel un comfortable with. But I do anyway, just to please other people. But this leads to bigger mistakes.

I orginally posted to ask a question, however thought it would be nice to express my day to people who know.
I'm curently renting a room in Suffolk, I originally moved 200 miles away to get away from the social stigma only to find the same behaviour here. Social understanding is on a national scale regardless of culture, language or ethnicity, everybody behaves the way in which I dislike. Although I regard the chinese/jap/kor asian to private behaviour.
It is strange that we have the ability to learn complicated subjects, etc, but we are unable to understand other people.
Sorry for the unsual context, I would much prefer to talk the context than to type it, since I can think faster than I can type, so often I just jabble words.
I'm renting a room which sometimes requires a social conversation with my landlord, and often as with most people who have the power to change my circumstances requirse effort to socialise.
I attempt by looking into the eyes of my landlord whenever I engage in conversation. And sadly or happily this results in me smiling or laughing directly at him. I think the result of this is becuase I am unable to listen whilst looking into his eyes. So the verbal communication is lost whilst all effort is made on the eyes.
And often the the effort to engage in positive interaction results in negative popularity, dislike etc.

Well, some here have claimed that autistic people have no subconcious. I seriously doubt that. You pretty much have to switch back and forth just to type, though it isn't so obvious, because it IS the subconcious and, thus, automatic.

Anyway, I digressed. Imagine if you had to CONCIOUSLY determine what to type all the time. Computer programs to do even rather SIMPLE computations got so complex that many processor manufacturers added an APU(Arithmetic Processing Unit). Up to the 80486sx, there were the 80x87 units which were APUs. In the pentium and newer processors, they automatically include the 80x87 features, like the 80486dx did. 80486dxs with a bad APU became 80486sxs, and 80486dxs with a bad CPU became 80487s! We have parts of the brain specialized fo speech and vision, so I guess there is a social part also. If one lacks the speech, they may be mute. If one lacks the vision, they may be blind. If they lack the frontal lobe, they may be MR. I guess if the social has a defect, they might be AS.(assuming little else is affected).

As for the social aspect, different cultures have certain rules and customs to facilitate various social needs but, otherwise, are identical. I guess that really is a fact of life in the human race. Of course, the rules and customs CAN change things greatly. What one culture considers a great compliment, another may consider the worst insult. Examples include burping, showing the soles of your feet. Even the sign in the US, that means OK, means the person is worthless in italy.