do you have aspergers AND good social skills?

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That's sort of the case with me as well. For instance, I don't feel like I have any real friends at the moment, I think my job has possibly been in jeopardy before partially because of social issues (now it appears that it may be in jeopardy for other reasons ), and it's been several years since I've seen any members of my extended family. On the other hand, I've had a few experiences in recent years of getting into long, in-depth conversations that lasted for hours with people online that I had just barely met. These conversations seemed to make a really favorable impression on the people I was talking to and they seemed to take a strong liking towards me.

Also, as a teenager I had quite a few friends. My house was kind of a hub of activity during those years and I even had some friends living with me at my parents' house for short periods when they were having trouble with their families, etc. That seems like another lifetime ago, as a lot of my adult years so far have been spent basically in isolation. I ended up becoming pretty disillusioned with the social group I had known when I was younger and realized how my social naivete had led to my misjudging the character of certain people I knew and left me open to being disrespected, subtly bullied, etc.