Thanks for this information. This is the crux of what I what looking for!
Maybe, although the recent awareness of it has come out of some of the problems it has been causing recently! I'm nearly 22 (in August) but I moved out of my parents home 4 years ago, began to live on my own (albeit with my girlfriend) almost 2 years ago now, and so in that respect I've already dealt with a lot of change that was maybe premature. [There were other things happening between diagnosis and the present that I won't go into that aren't normal experiences by any stretch of the imagination and resulted in me having to 'grow up fast'.
As I mentioned, recently it seems to have caused more problems, and this has led to me noticing my AS a lot more. Although until reading these replies it felt like my AS was getting worse causing the problems. (I hope the difference is clear there!).
I'm currently at Uni in my second year (I had 2 years of 'gap'), and it is certainly the social side of things that has gone downhill. In my first year, I made a small but solid group of friends (about 7-8 of us overall) from my course. However, during the last academic year things have taken a turn for the worse. Although not all of cam be blamed on my AS, as some of it is certainly to do with their own issues and faults, I can't help but think that it has played a part. Since September, it has been one event after another that has led to at least multiple people falling out with me. Usually over misunderstandings or feeling that I'm too 'Black or White' in my response to situations.
Although losing friends has happened to me before, it has never been as stark as this, nor as sudden. Usually it actually happened out of a forced change such as me moving house (I moved a lot while growing up) rather than a particular argument or falling out. Although I did have trouble keeping in contact with people once I had moved.
It has ended up, that as we approach the end of the academic year, out of the original group of friends, that aside from my long-term girlfriend, I only have one person who I can count on.
Thankfully the academic side of my degree hasn't been affected by this, but the recent events (although I haven't gone into too much detail, as that would take up so much time!) certainly made me realise the condition of my AS lately.