"It's like she's trying to read my mind"

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I had a session with my aunt and therapist. My aunt said that I would always stare at people, as if I was trying to read their minds. She also said I was reading into things more than was actually there, basically thinking there was more to the expression than was really there.

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Do not worry, Angnix. You and I cannot read minds, let alone body language.

As for staring, let them. If looks could kill, almost seven billion humans would go *poof* and there would be "life after people."

If your therapist does not defend you against remarks like this, you have a crummy therapist.

For those of us who have a DISABILTY that prevents us from being able to naturally and accurately read other people's nonverbal body language signals, analyzing things that are said around us is a survival mechanism. If we 'read more into things' that necessary, its in an attempt to make sure we don't miss something that would have been obvious to anyone else. Tell her to shut her cake hole and try living in your brain for a while.

And the staring is a normal thing for people with AS, too. Usually isn't about the person or thing we're staring at. As often a not, we're staring THROUGH whatever we're looking at, and thinking about something else entirely. If we were thinking about the person, most of us would look away to avoid eye contact.