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23 Jul 2015, 7:07 am

I was looking on Youtube for social training videos and couldn't find any good ones (maybe I'm just bad at searching).
Are you aware of good and long videos or texts for learning social skills suitable for complete idiots like me? I mean body language and such or how to talk and what to NOT talk about. Books would be good too (Also children's books, but rather teenager's books, preferably with pictures.)
Thanks!

I'm looking for stuff like this:


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23 Jul 2015, 7:45 am

Alex made some quite good films on skills with Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson of the PEERS program at UCLA’s.
I wish he had been able to do a whole series of these.
http://wrongplanet.net/video/autism-tal ... n-a-group/
http://wrongplanet.net/video/how-to-fli ... alk-tv-20/
http://wrongplanet.net/video/how-to-sto ... alk-tv-24/



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23 Jul 2015, 8:54 am

It's pretty old, but I think How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably a useful read for most people on the spectrum.



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23 Jul 2015, 11:59 am

If you are relatively high functioning I would recommend doing work in charity fundraising. They will take anyone who shows grit and determination. I say this because they directly teach you body language, tone of voice, what to say and what not to say and it is repetitive. This work is often on commission. I used to do it and they taught me social skills very well.


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23 Jul 2015, 12:30 pm

Here is some interesting videos, its more communication theory though :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvorr7587dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ400jf6-Cg



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24 Jul 2015, 3:53 pm

The "social skills they don't teach us" tag on realsocialskills.tumblr.com is pretty great.

(http://realsocialskills.org/tagged/soci ... teach%20us)


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24 Jul 2015, 3:59 pm

the fine art of small talk by debra fine. how to start a conversation and make friends by don gabor. i prefer the first, but the second comes recommended by an autism expert.