Any advice on faking life skills?

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I'm trying to gain life skills, but I'm not gaining them as fast I want or need. In the meantime I want to have a facade of having average or slightly above average life skills. This is mainly for friendships and dating. I know you need to be genuine in serious relationships, so I'll be avoiding them. Has anyone succeeded in having a believable facade?

Probability the best advice I can give from my personal experience is to get into theater. Taking acting and drama classes can really help when it come to learning how to fake it. Before I ever knew I has AS. My drama teacher would point out all the body language issues I had as if I was looking into a mirror. These acting skills can be applied to social situation when you need to fake it.

I agree with LupaLuna. I did some acting classes in college and was quite good at it. It really teaches you great skills that you can transfer to real life.

LupaLuna, sorry to get WAY off topic here but in another thread you mentioned you were a free diver. I just looked at some documentaries on that since I knew pretty much nothing about it. That is so amazing. I am just curious and wanted to ask you what your deepest dive is. Sorry to change the subject but when I saw Lupa respond I wanted to ask real quick. But back to the thread now.

I'm not too interested in mainstream theatre, but I'll try something. I also want to know how to convincingly gloss over my crappy life skills. I already have some ideas. If people ask about work I'll tell them I'm mostly focusing on school. I actually am going to school, I just won't mention I'm on disability. I live in a suite at my parents house. I won't mention it's my parents house or call it my own house either. I'm working towards making my suite look like my own. The good thing is my generation has bad life skills in general, so I won't stand out too much.