Social cues are one of the biggest headaches for autistic people. I know. I’ve suffered cryptic, ambiguous, abstract, indirect messaging for years, and haven’t always known how to handle it.

When you discover you have Asperger’s, you can think, ‘Ah, I now know why I’ve had
trouble understanding people, and why they always had trouble understanding me. It’s not
they
who had the problem. It was me all along!’

Problem solved. Or is it?

Working as I’ve done in the arena of perso...


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