It’s hilarious how when I was a teen I thought I could hyperanalyze all social interactions to be good at them because they didn’t make sense to me.
For example: I couldn’t understand flirting and relationships. I remember asking a friend who was a prolific flirt to give me a step by step guide on how to flirt and hit on people and he was like “what”. I couldn’t understand that people just felt like doing stuff, they must’ve learned it somewhere!
Later I got good at social interaction, but only because I was masking so hard I couldn’t do anything else at the same time and I would be exhausted by the end of every social interaction.
c/neurodiverse
It’s hilarious how when I was a teen I thought I could hyperanalyze all social interactions to be good at them because they didn’t make sense to me.
For example: I couldn’t understand flirting and relationships. I remember asking a friend who was a prolific flirt to give me a step by step guide on how to flirt and hit on people and he was like “what”. I couldn’t understand that people just felt like doing stuff, they must’ve learned it somewhere!
Later I got good at social interaction, but only because I was masking so hard I couldn’t do anything else at the same time and I would be exhausted by the end of every social interaction.