it seems that people with aspergers tend to have trouble relating emotionally, which is likely tied into the crying thing. Based on your descriptions you very well could fall somewhere on the spectrum. It's impossibly to know for sure how many people fit in the ASD world, since it's typically not diagnosed.
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Another part of the trouble relating emotionally thing is that a lot of times folks who aren't on the spectrum are communicating what's appropriate socially and emotionally indirectly and expecting autistic folks to pick up on it in the same way folks who aren't autistic can. We don't necessarily learn that way. I don't always pick up social cues or the ones that I do pick up I fixate on as part of my "routine". Many folks on the spectrum find it a lot easier to relate emotionally when others directly explain what is expected of them or wanted from them.