Hi @veronagirl, that was a very interesting insight into your own experience of Aspergers. We're all different, but I certainly could associate with much of what you said above. I don't "stim" as such, that I know of, and my wife hasn't noticed it of me, so I guess that's one point of difference.
Your comments about idioms brought a smile to my face. When I was being formally diagnosed, the psychotherapist used the phrase "toasting the bride" and I definitely couldn't comprehend that one! 😝 I was imagining a bride on a rotisserie spit or something.
On the darker side of Aspie life, I watched a local documentaryᵃ a few nights ago which featured an Aspie who was just a few years behind me at High School (I'm pretty sure he went to the same school as I had), and he was seriously bullied (as I had been at that school), but he ended up actually murdering one of his tormentors, without even realising what he had done. Scary, as that perhaps could so easily have been me. Sad, also, to think that I was only a few years ahead of him, and if the "powers that be" had've only done something about the culture of bullying when I was at school, then what happened to this guy might not have happened at all.