ADHD and Aspergers

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Okay, I'm just going to repost this, since I've already asked a few variations of this question in various places. Not sure if anyone here can help me or not.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I entered high school. At the time (think around the year 2000 or so - no, I'm not going to tell you my exact age, silly people XP), the psychiatrist doing the evaluation really strongly suspected Aspergers Syndrome based on a general description of my situation and some of my family history. There were a few tests I took (out of a whole battery of them) that ruled out Aspergers. I believe they were facial recognition and motor control, but I'm not certain. In any case, I was diagnosed with combined ADHD, but because a lot of my symptoms were so similar to Aspergers, the psychiatrist recommended that I see a social worker who specialized in that instead of ADHD.

I did just that, and the social worker I saw was incredibly helpful to me. However, I stopped seeing her around the time the college search was gearing up (because that was all I was talking about instead of social issues). However, I still think I have work to do and would like to get some good coping information. However, I feel kind of like I'm stuck in a gray area. A lot of the stuff I find for ADHD is irrelevant to me. For instance, I am impulsive, but have never had issues with drugs or misbehavior of any kind. If the advice isn't about that, I usually find that it's geared for kids much younger than I am. At the same time, I'm worried about delving too deeply into any information I find about Aspergers since I don't have that, and so I don't know whether the information is relevant or not.

I would love to be able to go see the social worker I saw before again, but it's difficult because I'm rarely in the area anymore. Right now, I'm in Tokyo. I get back home in July, and then it's only a few weeks before I'm off to DC, and it's a really long (and decently pricey) commute back home from there (While I'm in Tokyo, I'm not even going to consider it. ^^). So for the moment, I guess I'm looking for some type of self-help information, mostly regarding social skills. Eventually, once I can actually settle down somewhere, I'm thinking of looking for a new social worker.

EDITED to remove family history due to probable irrelevance

All I really can say is you can try to figure out social skills based on observation. Its just one of the many ways to compensate. As far as I know, japan is a mishmash like the United states. Older folks are more conservative, younger are just more wild. Depends on region though. Id just say try to be polite. You arent a native there so they should understand, or at least treat ya as a tourist.

Hehe, it's actually not the Japanese people in general I have problems with. I think they have a bit of a stereotype of Americans doing kinda stupid stuff during conversation, so they tend to just smile and laugh. It's the other foreigners I tend to have problems with, probably because I'm still kinda not conforming, but they have a more realistic idea of how much conformation Americans will do. Especially during my Japanese class, where in addition to all the other issues, my language is confined to the amount of Japanese I can speak. I usually get really nervous during conversations there and just start ranting about dogs or something I read in the news. I do the same thing in English ^^, but it's easier for me to get a read on the other person and switch topics, or at least find a news story that both myself and the other person are interested in. But yeah, maybe just observing's the best strategy for the interim.

I don't think they can really rule it out just based on motor skills and facial recognition, can they?

Like I said, I'm not certain that I have them right. Those are just what I recall them mentioning. I've never actually dug into the records myself. For some reason, it was listed as a ruled-out condition, although like I said, the psychiatrist did take strong note of the similarities.