How do I work out my social functioning?

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Well, followup:

I was able to say, "I need to discuss this without digressions" or something. I forget the exact words.

I used the video from this thread:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt161934.html

to explain how I interpret (or perhaps, do not interpret) social situations on the fly. I forgot to make it clear how adding more and more variables (that is, people) lag/slow the whole process and make it harder for me to participate.

I was able to explain/demonstrate how, when I look at social situations, pictures, etc. I can't just generate a social idea of what is going on, and in fact I am very unlikely to even try. Why bother? So I managed to communicate a baseline: That I don't really process social situations the way NTs do.

After that it was a matter of discussing how I do function socially - intellectually and deliberately, and some debate over how socially adept I am. We mainly covered one on one stuff so I'll have to go into group things next week.

I feel better about this than I did when I started this thread, though. Thanks for the advice.