The good news and bad news of AS are the same: you'll never be someone other than yourself; AS can't be completely cured. So if you learn how to act normal it doesn't mean you're normal. The AS is one slip-up away, a banana peel waiting for you to step on it.
Suppose you know you have AS and have learned how to mimic normal body language (eye contact, personal space/distance) and know not to ramble or lecture about your favorite subject. You can hold down a job and have a few normal friends, maybe even (as quite a lot of us do) a wife and kids.
So you and the wife are looking at a new development in your town, luxury condos for singles. You drop the ball in five, four, three...
"If something happens to you and the kids, I'd love a setup like this."
Sorry I don't remember the source of the quote.
There was an episode of "House" that had something like this as its plot: a man has brain damage that knocks out his internal censor so he says everything he's thinking (he doesn't think his wife is as smart as he is and doesn't value her job as much as his, hardly abnormal but don't say them!) and even when he means to say something appropriate it comes out wrong (he knows what's happening so of course he doesn't want his little girl to hear him in this condition; it comes out "I don't want you here"). (BTW I don't think House has AS. He's just a very smart grouch.)
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