Here is a pretty comprehensive account of social skills and, what is more basic, of social cognition skills that people with ASD have trouble with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8FgOQpbGAY
The behavioral analyst gives a lot of examples.
Social cognition is also very important with respect to Low Social Anxiety ("LSA") versus High Social Anxiety ("HSA"): "Compared with LSA participants, HSA participants exhibited higher accuracy levels on the affective mental state attribution conditions, but were less accurate than LSA individuals on the parallel cognitive mental state attribution conditions." (source: http://doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/upl ... Pages4.pdf)
I am quite optimistic that once you realize better the link between your social cognition deficits and your anxiety issues, it will reduce your overall anxiety level.
11 Apr 2015, 11:11 pm
