I'm 17, and have been raised knowing about my Asperger's. It's been strange whenever a meeting with teachers or whatever has come up about it. Several times, my IEP has had things I thought I didn't need, and I had to think through whether they were really unneeded or it was just my brain trying to convince me it's just like everyone else. I tend to think that "normal" people are just like me, and can't tell if I'm on the almost-normal end of the spectrum or if my antisocial lifestyle keeps me from knowing how my peers actually live.
I rarely participate socially without prompting and usually take far too long to think of something to say, so in group conversations, I usually just listen in. A lot of the time I focus tightly on just one thing, including my own thoughts. This results in people seeing me as very quiet/shy when I want to participate more but can't figure out how. When I start thinking about something get caught up in it, I look strange to everyone else and if it happens in class, I stop paying attention to the lesson. It's often accompanied by vigorous hand movement I can't describe in detail. The hyperfocusing and attention to detail is usually advantageous on my FIRST Robotics Competition team(number 401 if you're interested), but can sidetrack me to work on less-important jobs or becoming too attached to a clearly impractical feature of the robot.