I think mild ASD, at least for me, can be just as bad. It depends on person to person; Its a spectrum for a reason.
No one in my childhood and teenage years had the idea that I was 'different'. However, I was constantly gaslighted that I was, for example, too rude to look people straight in the eye, shake hands, kiss all people on a family birthday (yuck) or that I was lazy because I really needed an hour of rest after school or work instead of doing household chores immediately.
I never fully met all the social norms, my siblings did, and was therefore a bit of the black sheep in the family. According to my (loving) parents everything was my own choice, and of course in a sense it is, so in the end I fully believed that too. It took some time to rebuild my self-image.
No one in my childhood and teenage years had the idea that I was 'different'. However, I was constantly gaslighted that I was, for example, too rude to look people straight in the eye, shake hands, kiss all people on a family birthday (yuck) or that I was lazy because I really needed an hour of rest after school or work instead of doing household chores immediately.
I never fully met all the social norms, my siblings did, and was therefore a bit of the black sheep in the family. According to my (loving) parents everything was my own choice, and of course in a sense it is, so in the end I fully believed that too. It took some time to rebuild my self-image.