I'd be interested to know how this interplays with ASD (as I have HFA/Aspergers). I've spend decades in a high stress state... and feeling lonely/isolated. I'm really lucky that I have an understanding wife, but I'm really not that good with the normal "social situations" neurotypical people gravitate to, but where I end up feeling agitated and disorientated, and emotionally drained. I've often said I feel drawn to such situations but hate it when I'm in them.