Social skills training

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What on earth is social skills training?

I need something like that.

It would be nice if it was possible to do isolated social exercises. Much the same way as bodybuilders use split routines to build muscle. The work on their biceps on one day then another parts of their body on another.

Problem with current social skills training is they seem to require one to learn more then one thing at once. This would be equivalent to a bodybuilder lifting heavy bags around and working on a building site in order to get strong.

Social Skills Training is a treatment that teaches how to interperate social situations and appropriate social behaviors. There are different types of social skills training and they can utilize other types of treatments like speach therapy and oftan use methods like social stories, commic strip stories, and social analysis. Like many treatment Social Skills Training is individualized to the patient. There are some pretty good sources on it.

Can you get social skills training over the internet and if you got social skills training and went through it would you still be an Aspie?

Yes, definitely. Social skills training can't make drastic neurological changes! It can only help to cope with the AS symptoms and improve communication with NT people.

But social skills training via the internet sort of defies the point, I think...

So would a social skills excercise training be like boot camp?

Left...Left...Left right left Now use your vocal chords! Tell me that I'm the most awesomest thing ever. Look me in the eyes! Hold your hands still! Smile really big!

Cue visual: wedding dress

March! You look lovely!

Years of social skills training has certainly taught me to read non-verbal cues and succeed very easily in conversation, but it has done little to exacerbate my Acerbic personality.

Sounds like I need social skills training...

anything can be made out of training i guess. personally i think if you have to be trained to do something it wasnt ment to be

Anyone know how I can get social skills training?

I'd like to learn where I could go for Social Skills Training as well. Can you get it through a big HMO, like Kaiser Permanente, or do you have to be redirected to an independent specialist? I'd much rather go through Kaiser, as I have generally had good experiences with their professionals.

The one thing I find difficult, though, and I don't know if Social Skills Training would help with this, is how often people lie to me and tease me. I may not be able to read what others are doing so easily, but I can get a few ideas from some methods I've read up on using SNAP and other analytical approaches for interrogations.

But it's the constant lying and teasing that defeats me every time. I can't get a straight forward answer from even my own family, and even when I do a good job at work, I'm constantly mocked by losers who can't get their acts together.

And these people who tease me in social situations are almost always women. Guys only try to backstab me because the people I regularly deal with at work are just deadbeats. That, I can understand and cope with. The NTs at work take the same nonsense, so I don't particularly mind the backstabbing so much.

But no NT I've ever encountered has ever had to deal with the teasing, or the manipulative lying and trap-setting games I deal with on a constant basis. It's like these people can smell I'm genuinely trusting and willing to set a proper example, and the next thing I know, they're faking they're "scared" or "insulted", and then turn around and set another trap.

That's all I really want to learn. Well, that, learning how to avoid being set up as the sucker by bums, con-men, and other riff-raff like that. When I go downtown to the bank or one of the state agencies, no one else around me is harassed by the hobos sitting around. However, as soon as I walk up, they jump to their feet, and get in my face about how they need me to buy them something, while keeping their dominant hand in their pocket like they're wielding a weapon.

Can't I just kill these worthless people? It's not like them or their NT counterparts have any value.

My daughter was going to a group and the therapist was a moderator who would start a conversation, and if some did or said something inappropriate, she would let them know. She would also take them out for dinner, and other outings to see what happens. She would show them facial expressions that were meant to tell her what they wanted or didnt want etc....