Yes, those are good clues.

For an "official diagnosis", click on this:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html
scroll down to 299.80, answer the questions keeping track of the number of yes answers in each section, then follow the scoring instructions.

I don't think that high performing Asperger's is due to the mercury in vaccines; I think that it is another way of sensing and thinking where a major part of the brain that is normally hardwired at around birth for social communications becomes available for other uses instead. For example, most chess grandmasters are Aspers, as are about half of all Nobel Prize winners in mathematics. Most of us tend to think in pictures (as did Einstein), which can make some otherwise difficult subjects (such as special and general relativity) much easier. Sensing differently could also be very valuable way back when, such as for tracking animals (and I don't mean seeing obvious paw prints in the mud or snow).

In some ways, some of us are born furry:
http://forums.furaffinity.net/showt.....ght=born+furry
see comment #24

Very interesting and useful info here:
http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Trans.....dp/0156031442/
The author, Temple Grandin is a famous and very successful animal psychologist - and is herself on the autistic spectrum.
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Pict.....dp/0679772898/
http://www.amazon.com/Way-See-Perso.....dp/1932565728/
http://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Rul.....dp/193256506X/

Thanks for your fave! If you watch me, you see more from a born furry Asper scientist.

FA's URL parser often screws up the forth link in a row. Here is a correct version of the last link:
http://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Rul.....dp/193256506X/

Here are some possible Asperger's and genetics connections:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?.....ger%20genetics

Just click on any title that interests you to see the abstract. Some papers are free in their entirety. Some of these papers also discuss possible environmental factors that might affect gene expression. Enjoy!

Many of us love shiny and glowy things... Hurrah for experimental plasma physics!