Who here was born with the ability to get social cues?

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I have very rare form of aspergers where i was naturally able to understand social cues but ignore them if chose. Unforturnately being stuck on med wrecked it. ANyone here born with this ability?

I pick up a lot (most I think), but there are some I can give a fake half-response to "I'm sorry to hear that", or "well, congratulations", and others I sorta sense, but just can't muster the required reaction. I cannot bring myself to give even a polite fake laugh at a joke that I recognize as an attempt at humor, but simply don't find funny. If a coworker wins the lottery, I'm not jealous, but if they expect a high-five and a lot of whooping and hollering, they're with the wrong person.

It's not that I don't see the social cues (or that I don't have a well-developed sense of humor), so much as I just fail to have the automatic response to them that NTs have.

Definitely not me.

If you're able to read the social clues, the I'd say you probably have ADD rather than Asperger's.

no i definately have aspergers, been dx'd and admitted to ddd. I have all the symptoms of aspergers. Been dx'd by a psychiatrist nueropsychologist and a autism researcher.

hmm, I think that was a little harsh; you could have disagreed politely and stated your reasons without sarcasm.

I think that your case is very interesting :D did the Psychologists give you a term for this form of Asperger's?

no

I have that ability.

If you've only previously had this ability, have you considered that chance that you may have exaggerated this phenomenon? I'm not trying to start a fight, but looking back at my own childhood, I've found that other people's perceptions have not exactly lined up with my own. I was far less social than I have seen myself to be. Just a thought.

I was not born with that ability. I acquired it through learning. Who here came out of the womb with an understanding of social cues?

How were you better than NTs?