Thank you for sharing this. Even though I was told when I was younger that I had a bit of Aspergers, I don't think I've experienced the depression side of it like this. But I have a friend who exhibits a lot of the traits you mention here, and we have a lot of difficulty communicating. I'm bad at reading signals, she gets upset easily and we have shouting matches or she withdraws. It's like we feed off of each other. I'm going to try in the future to understand it from this point of view, especially your last bit of advice.