Bagpuss made some very, very, very, important points--it is important to understand that AS more or less a sensory input disability--for some reason, the AS person is not able to process information that others are getting, but, as you can see from the posts above, the AS person has perfectly normal thought processes and appropriate emotions--Schizophrenia is a disease that distorts the thought processes and causes extreme and inappropriate fluctuations in emotions--

Without meaning to impune Mr. Red, the outward signs of AS and Schizophrenia are very different, and it seems a bit odd that he is comparing the two--it is true that Schizophrenics have some of the AS problems, but they are pychotic, and their delusional/psychotic ideation and behaviors are what make them schizophrenics--Asperger Syndrome people don't have that stuff--