I've been trying to go to conventions to overcome my social difficulties but I am still having a lot of trouble with it. In my experience I find there are two different types of people with high functioning autism (or aspergers although apparently that diagnosis has fallen out of use for some reason), one type is very talkative sometimes to the point of being too open about things and not giving others enough opportunity to speak. The other type like myself is extremely quiet and has trouble not being closed off to others. It honestly makes me very depressed at times because my flaws here keep me from achieving goals that are important to myself and I don't know how I can fix myself.