I always hated that phrase as a way to combat social anxiety. It’s terrible advice and has never helped anyway

Oh God the overcorrection - yeah been there, done that

Generally I’ve learned we’re bad at recognizing moods and body language, but every time we do recognize it, it affects us 3 times more than non-autistic people.

I always imagine that’s because for every mood we pick up on, we assume there’s been 3 other indicators we missed and we don’t wanna get it wrong.

Being autistic is like everyone’s playing a game, but 1) nobody will tell you the rules and 2) the rules keep changing