What percent of your autism struggles relate to social interaction?

[NB79]

Is almost always the social aspect. Unless you have some other difficulty, like not being able to talk etc.

 

[vergil96]

I don't have social issues, I have sensory issues and overload.

 

[UFO]

Let's see...

I am most of time just fine with talking with people. No shyness, no anxiety, no lockups in most social situations. I am even proactive in situations and start conversation if I think that other party might find silence as awkward. Of course, if it would be only about me, then total silence would be fine if there is not any practical reason to say something.

But...

I just got a reminder that I have hard time understanding emotions and contexts. Especially with contradictions like "someone laughing at a funeral". Why it is sometimes natural? Why it is sometimes improper? I can logically deduct that in this-and-this condition people do that, but not in that-and-that situation. But I can't relate. Sometime I can, but not nearly as often as other people apparently can.

I think that situational unawareness is some kind of communication deficit, so I would say that half of my problems are because of that.

Other half is just me being a moody and arrogant b**stard, who has a little patience towards people who don't understand clear explanation of obvious things at first try. "Clear explanation" and "obvious things" meaning that I think I have explained perfectly, but it does not mean that I follow a logic that other party can follow as well...

I love writing to forums like this, because I have much much more self-censorship options than in face-to-face communication.

Oh... Then there is TL;DR-effect as I just love walls of text... I have heard that need for an accurate input and output falls to the autistic spectrum as well. I haven't got much of feedback how often people just skip my writings because of that, so I can't assess how much it contributes to me being misunderstood.

 

[the_tortoise]

Oh... Then there is TL;DR-effect as I just love walls of text... I have heard that need for accurate input and output falls to autistic spectrum as well. I haven't got much of feedback how often people just skip my writings because of that, so I can't assess how much it contributes to me being misunderstood.

Ah yes, this affects me, too. In speech not so much, but people will say of my written communication sometimes that it is "....a lot."

The kindest conments about this call me "thorough" and "VERY precise" even when i truly, honestly think i have limited myself and offered just bare-bones description or explanation (lol).

 

[UFO]

A lot of text give context to everything. If I have a lot of relevant things to say, why hold them *)? It is like luring the other party to a trap by withholding information. No need to wonder "what he meant by that?". There is enough of those situations even with the TL;DR-length text

*) Okay... Most things are not that relevant, and even I can't comprehend walls of texts unless I am really interested about it at academic levels.

 

[Poppy98]

I don't have social issues, I have sensory issues and overload.

These are a big thing for me as well. Probably bigger than the social depending on if I'm forced into a situation where I have to tolerate the sensory stuff (ex uniforms).

 

[Xinyta]

I'd say it's 50-50.

Half of it Autism. Half of it laziness/psychological.

There are times I'll just not know what to say. Then there is times I want to say something, but then say nothing at all. Or I mumble it out really quickly.

 

[Poppy98]

little patience towards people who don't understand clear explanation of obvious things at first try. "Clear explanation" and "obvious things" meaning that I think I have explained perfectly, but it does not mean that I follow a logic that other party can follow as well

been there. Very tiring.