firemonkey wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Your person was almost certainly gauging your interpersonal skills and seeing your awareness of personal space.
Personally, I think your inability to understand social etiquette or personal space would be noted as a potential sign of ASD.
Does understanding social etiquette come naturally to most people? I'm not sure if it's connected but I have been described as having very poor social skills.
It seems like social skills do come naturally to most people. Either that, or neurotypical people learn to mimic from a young age; the 'copying' doesn't interfere with their development or cause anxiety the way it does for people on the spectrum.
Autistic children often demonstrate an impairment in social skill from the time they are babies. For example they seldom wave bye-bye, follow the direction of someone pointing, respond to games such as peek-a-boo, etc. Of course this isn't true of all autistic babies, but it's one developmental criterion in assessment.
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