Social Cues - Blog Posts

Why are other people so unaware of their surroundings and other people's space

Welcome to the stupid & dumb human rules show!!!

so, here’s how the show works I give you a dumb rule that humans follow, and then I sometimes rant about it.

Eye contact.

Dear power why? Why do we have to look at peoples eyes? They’re gross they’re slimy I don’t wanna look at them. Thank you for coming to my TED talk about why eyes are gross. (Funny, I’ll willingly dissect a cows eye with joy but the moment I have to look at a human eye, I will freak out.)

I think it needs to become common knowledge that "inability to read social cues" can show up as overcompensating.

You don't know how much misbehaviour is allowed, so you become the perfect child who never tests rules.

You don't know if someone is irritated with you, so you'll be extra generous and self-effacing.

You don't know how much is expected of you at work so you'll kill yourself in a minimum-wage job and not notice that nobody else is working like this.

"Hardworking and quiet" should be as much of an autism red flag as "ignores rules and doesn't know when to stop talking". Or why don't we just start using words to communicate so i can stop tracking everybody's eyebrow twitches, that would be great.

how it feels to properly interpret a social cue

(especially bc I'm not good at communication lol)