this pointer in a component gives me Implicit coercion of a value of type Class...

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...to an unrelated type

I have an AS class that takes an instance to a component in its ctor. And I'm creating the class in my component. So in the mx:Script part of this component I have:

public var ASinstance = new ASinstance(this);

I can understand why it doesn't like "this", it's an AS thing. So how do I pass the instance of my component to the ctor if not with "this"?