What social skills for you fail to sink in?

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Agreeing with people and their groups.

You mean pretending to agree?

How old were you?
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14?

Being told to talk in the presense of other people

Being told to "Shut Up" when I try to talk

Stimming in the presense of family

My personal list goes on and on and on.

Me too. And, I still have the tendency to go on and on about something....it´s very hard for me to keep changing subjects all the time, "superficial conversations" as I call them.

But I think the hardest thing for me...what I´ll never get, no matter how I try...is how to keep the level of my voice down. When I´m talking about something that really interests me, I tend to get excited and just start talking louder. I am never aware of this when it actually happens. So often, in public, people tell me to keep my voice down....they say it like they would to a 6 year old or something! Embarrassing....I know I have this tendency, I´m even concentrating on it, but it just sneaks up on me...

I do! I do! I have often thought that when people got other friends, and their time allottment to me is less, I was more jealous of the TIME spent away from me than the other friends.
I just thought anyone that spent less time with me meant they were going to leave me altogether and would cause a rupture to happen in our relationship so I wouldn't have to be dumped, eventually.

Merle

It's happened to me many times that I made a new friend because they were in a time when they were looking for new friends (I didn't know it). Then when they made a few more new friends as a result of their search, they'd either dump me or keep me on the slow burner just in case those other new friendships didn't work out. So I'd see and hear more or less from this friend - depending on how well the other friendships were going. I don't like this at all.

The statement "You dont have to if you dont want" always trips me up.

It really means the exact opposite. "I really want you to do it."

Also I have no ability to envision that other people are doing 'things' outside my perception. IF I think of someone elsewhere, the scene is static, eventless.

The "god bless you" one trips me out. If I ever come in contact with you Tahitiii, please know that I do this out of habit, a comfirmed atheist here! I say it when people sneeze, cough, burp, or make any noise really.

The concepts of:

"It's good enough."
"It doesn't matter."

These are at work, and are used one way or another to shut me up nearly every day. I've actually spoken up a lot more lately for some reason...

I noticed this one day out of the blue. I'd describe my day, and then have nothing left but a little silence. Lights came on one day, I can't remember why or how, but I think it was following a television show.

I'm terrible for not doing this as well.

I was about to say this. When people ask me how I am, I almost always tell them the truth. This isn't so bad now, but when I was going through a bad period as a teenager, it took a while to notice that the people asking only wanted a polite "Fine, thanks. How are you?" and were rather annoyed at having to listen to me go on for a while about what was wrong. I do ask people how they are, but only when I care about them and genuinely want to know. If they say they're fine when I know they're not, it sort of annoys me.

I always thought this was normal for everyone, but maybe not? Who knows.

Yep, I am crap at what's mentioned above too, return the question how are you. When people ask me how I am and I feel s**t I say I am s**t. I understand now that asking how are you is some sort of polite greeting British people do and it doesn't mean anything real. I am learning to do the greeting now.

My social skills are not good in general. I am very direct, open, honest sometimes blunt and tactless, but is that bad? At least I am honest, open and there are no reading between the lines, hints etc...
I don't have a clue if people get bored of me or when I am intervening in a group, I don't understand hints, people should just say it, way more clear and no misunderstandings.

Ohh and yeah I would get on and on for a bit when I have some exciting news, you don't get the response you expect, not everybody might be as excited as you. I find this hard to change though, it's out of my mouth before I think, because of the excitement.

Personally, I don't believe in the concept of social skills.
Yeah sure some people are more vulnerable than others, and some can protect themselves more in social situations, but really - I just think it's all a bunch of conventional riff raff that I don't really care to be part of. Shoot me.

As far as I'm concerned, people do what they want. Why must Aspies be called less skilled in socialising when they're just not conforming to the standards of the majority?

All of the above.

I have trouble knowing when people are done talking. Then when they are done, how do you gracefully remove yourself from the situation? I never get this. I usually look rude because I just walk off or weird because I'm still just kinna standing there. I hate that feeling. How do you deal with this? I rely alot on other people to say "I'm done talking now, gotta go" or some semblence of.

Thank goodness I've got people in my life that help me with this. It still is awkward when I'm with people who don't know how to do it for me, though. It's frustrating for me.