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I wouldn’t say I am autistic, but reading social cues is sometimes really hard. I was pretty social in my 12-22 years. Now it’s like “So I wasn’t supposed to say that? How should I know?” Talking with clients on the phone is a pain because most of the time they dribble unnecessary stuff, unrelated to the issue we’re supposed to take care of. I don’t care how your day went an what not. I want you to tell me what you want from me so I can hangup the phone and get to work. Is that bad?
The problem with straight cut statements like “autistic people don’t understand social cues” is that, it really depends on many many things. Like your environment growing up, your personality, your culture, etc. It’s a generic statement with layers upon layers of nuance.
Personally, I realized that people and social cues don’t make sense to me, most of the time, like they were born with a manual I never got.
But then, growing up, you start catching up things and build on that. To me, the autistic thing about it, is that it’s a conscious effort to understand and try to make sense of it.
