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What's wrong with me? It is not getting better.

I still can't understand subtle social cues. It's getting to me again. It's so so so so apparent that I don't understand them that people get extremely irritated with me. I really don't understand why I'm like this. It's like I'm extremely blind to some very important unsaid conversations and it frustrates me. Trying to keep up with all of this at work is so exhausting. Pretending I understand them. But not quite understanding them. Repeating myself a couple times or three because I think what I said was not heard, when it had been acknowledged by body language (I suppose)? Bcz I only get it when it's said "yes yes I get it!!!" In an annoyed voice.

I'm tired of life.
And today as well. A very short sentence said to me by my landlord who seemed irritated by me repeating myself...has left me in tears.
I so desperately want to understand what I'm missing. It makes survival extremely exhausting this way.
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DunningKruger · 61-69, M
Are you autistic? This sounds like a common trouble faced by autistic people.

Even if not, this is a hard thing to deal with. I was always like that when I was younger, and even to some degree still. You simply have to learn to accept it as just the way you communicate. Become good at saying, "I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean."

It's so exhausting, I know, but hang on. Things will get easier.