Quite revelatory!

In case you're interested in taking them too:

Still kinda reeling from the information that it is not typical to practice facial expressions and body language 😂🤦 amongst other things, of course, but yeah. Wow.

There is so much of my experience of the world that I have genuinely spent 40+ years thinking was the same for everyone, I just dealt with it worse than they did.

  • RION [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    28 on the first: okay, not too high and a lot of the questions sound like introversion rather than autism to me clueless

    144 on the second: aware

    remembering the period of my life around age 15-16 where i deliberately tried to become more skilled/proficient at social interaction yea

    remembering the scripting behavior where i would (and sometimes still do) imagine possible conversations i might have about something and try my best to plot out possible questions and responses agony-soviet

    remembering how i've described social interaction to my therapist as a performance where my goal is to entertain and get the other person to like me agony-deep

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      9 months ago

      Worth noting the second is specifically for picking up masking, so people with social anxiety will also score very high.

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      remembering the scripting behavior where i would (and sometimes still do) imagine possible conversations i might have about something and try my best to plot out possible questions and responses

      Aaaaaahhhhhh relating so hard right now, this takes up SO MUCH of my brain omfg