How many of you experience this?

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Hi:
I was wondering if you have people in your life who you call friends and vise versa. They appear to say that they love you and invite you to some events of theirs. You think things are fine when you suddenly aren't invited anymore. Your friends explain that they wanted to invite you to this or that and asked their family members or other friends but they say no. Then you find out that they have a problem with your quirks which are minor problems. Yet they are tolerable and immune to your friend who have similar quirks but not to you.

Does anyone here ever experience this?

You can't control whether not other people invite you to things.

Ouch.

People stopped inviting me because I usually just sit around watching people. It makes them feel like they force me to go, certainly those that know I will not say no to them even if I don't want to go. So in their defense, they don't ask me because they think I don't like it. In a way they are correct. But I do want to be part of their lives as well and for a very select few I would even try to be 'normal' (basically those that will never ever ask me).
I do not know if someone asked someone else to invite me or not but there have been people asking questions about 'that weird guy' to the host. I wasn't aware how much a good friend of mine's father disliked me (bit strong, more like how much he thought of me as a lazy oddball) until we had to work together for a while.

I try not to (publicly) hate these things but when I feel they don't like having me around, I do fade away and if they want to keep in touch, it is up to them. If they prefer me out of their lives, they get that chance without drama. Can't say this is the best strategy (like the other posters, I've lost quite a bit of people) but it is what I do.

I don't want to say anything bad about anyone but I have had people shut me out of things on several occasions because I
either

1. Talk too loud
2. Dominate the conversation
3. My hyperactivity

I don't go to this event or that event because someone's family member or friend either don't like me because of one of the following or because they are afraid that one of the above will put their current stress levels through the roof.

That happens to me too, except they rarely invite me in the first place. Usually I tag along once or twice and then stop hearing from them.

As a result, I just avoid social things alltogether.

Until recently I never understood how people manage to get invited more than one or two times as most people seem to be so boring and I didn't realise that this is the reason they get invited again - they are non-threatening!
Maybe some Aspies (including myself) tend to put too much emphasis on performance. It took me many years of my life to understand that a good performance doesn't mean people like you more. I wish it was like this! I would be so integrated *lol*