Social cues

“Social cues are verbal or non-verbal signals expressed through the face, body, voice, motion (and more) and guide conversations as well as other social interactions by influencing our impressions of and responses to others. These percepts are important communicative tools as they convey important social and contextual information and therefore facilitate social understanding.

A few examples of social cues include:

• eye gaze
• facial expression
• vocal tone
• body language”

Wikipedia - Social cues

Autistic difficulties with communication, including non-verbal signals, are explained here:

NAS - Autism and communication

It is how you tell if someone is pleased to see you, bored, lying, interested, had enough, happy, uncomfortable, fancies you,  etc. without them just saying it.

Hmm sounds like I may have to consciously try this out sometime….to see if I understand what’s what on some level. How do I know if they mean what they are expressing though like if it’s someone I do not know well? I am naturally very suspicious over people and their intentions. 

Hmm sounds like I may have to consciously try this out sometime….to see if I understand what’s what on some level. How do I know if they mean what they are expressing though like if it’s someone I do not know well? I am naturally very suspicious over people and their intentions. 

You can just ask, are you happy/sad/tired to calibrate.

Some like, are you bored, are harder.

The problem is people may be polite and lie. After you've monologue'd at them for 10 mins and you ask if they're bored or if you've said too much, they'll say no and you will find it hard to tell.

It is probably easier to say less and ask if they'd like to know more.

You may be blunt or be unsympathetic, you'll have to tell by their reaction. It is harder to tell.

Of course if people walk off you have missed something.