I think there's clear social impairment. Making friends is harder and it takes more "manual" effort to socialize "effectively". However much of this social imp

I think there's clear social impairment. Making friends is harder and it takes more "manual" effort to socialize "effectively". However much of this social impairment may or may not be a real problem. "special interests" and "obsessing over one topic" is an impairment in social scenerios, but can be extremely beneficial for tasks related to that special interest.