Always thinking your doing something wrong

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One of the things I really hate is that Im always think Im doing something socially wrong even if Im not. I tend to blame myself for absolutely everything that could go wrong even if its the smallest things

Examples
Talking 2 someone, they blow me off, cause I kept the conversation going too long, bad timing
Someone dislikes me, its cause Im not acting friendly towards them, my cold apperance
A friends acting weird, distant towards me, its cause I said something I was unaware of to piss em off
My friends acting superior towards me, Its cause I act like a baby.

The thing that bugs me too, is that I tend to overapologize to friends at the very least. Not to acquintances, by now I realize if u say something "off" with an acquintance, ehh theres no much u do so u shouldnt call it out unless its pretty bad. With friends, I overapologize and sometimes its ackward because they have no clue what im talking about. I hate that. Im so freakin paranoid its not even funny.

Join the freaking club.

I am always saying I am sorry for one thing or another-I was told by another person on the spectrum that I apologize too much.

It's kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Now, the baseline, a lot of acquaitances have such a full plate with work, family, and maybe school that they just don't have much energy to meet new people.

One thing I've had some success with is a phrase or short sentence, [pause], and if they don't say anything, maybe the next observation. That combined with being open to ping ponging it back and forth. Nonperfectionist. And being open to appreciating others. Not necessarily appreciating them, just being open to this. Seems to be the coin of the realm in social interaction. And underdoing in kind of a zen way of letting it happen rather than trying to force it to happen, and that also is tricky for me.

And I like what you say at the end. I am also learning, just let a medium mistake simply be a medium mistake.

Yeah, I have the same issue. I am a compulsive apologizer . I am usually sincere when I apologize but sometimes it is almost like a reflex. When I was a kid I used to say "I'm sorry" when someone tripped or dropped something and I was no where near them. That's just was came out. I actually still do that on occasion.