*nods* For better or worse, my brain wiring is such that as soon as someone identifies themselves as the kind of incomprehensible chattering monkey who is incapable of communicating with me like a sane and rational sentient being, they ring a bell in my brain as "not my species" and I largely do stop caring. I can try to pretend that I care, and go through the motions to avoid even more annoying drama, but I really can't relate emotionally to people who think that way. So unless there is a practical reason for continuing to relate, I do prefer to cut myself off from anyone who cannot be consistently sane and rational when they talk to me.

I think the real tragedy of Asperger's/autism is when you have enough of the wiring broken to mess up your relations with neurotypicals, but not enough of it broken to really not care. I got dealt a fairly lucky hand, I imagine. I like how I'm wired, though it does come with some obstacles and handicaps for which I need to put extra energy into hacks and workarounds. I don't particularly mind being unable to relate to the unwashed masses. I can fake it if I want to, but I really don't want to, and I've worked hard to arrange my life so that I don't have to.