Slimebeast said:
Interesting. Could you elaborate on that a bit? Are you bad at picking up verbal cues too, because those are important too in how to build a conversation. About controlled environment, yeah but what if you joined one of those groups where non-social people gather and practice socializing and talking? |
Yep, I have a tendency to take people literally under pressure (and I am under French-oral-exam levels of pressure in a conversation even if I know the person). I take any negative emotion displayed as a sign they never want to talk to me again, then I literally run away and am thinking about the mistake I made (or thought I made) for the rest of the day.
I have tried those groups but they are full of people who are either i) genuinely retarded, ii) have no idea how to behave in a social setting e.g. shouting, aggressively talking about their special interests or making repetitive sounds, or iii) have other conditions like ADHD, Tourette's, autism and so on. I am capable of appearing normal it just takes 100 times the effort to do so.
Or else it's a rote learning of social cues from a textbook. I /know/ Person A should say "Hello" and Person B should ask about the weather or what happened to them at the weekend, and so on.
