Hi
I am hoping that autistic people might be able to help me out. Basically, my problem is that I can't read faces or tones of voice, and my family while I was growing up was not usual, so I have no idea how a normal family "scripts" - as in, when they say something, what are the sort of responses they expect.
e.g. someone comes home from work and tells you about a problem they are having. The expected script is that you will make sympathetic noises and say things that make them feel good about themself. My standard response to being told about a problem was to suggest how to fix it, which is not following the expected script in this case (and winds people up as a result) and once I knew the expected script I could respond appropriately.
I'm hoping that autistic people have some expertise in figuring things like this out so please tell me what scripts you know. I'm female, which I suspect makes a difference. Thank you!
NB1 If anyone is interested, I'm seeing a psychologist who thinks I may be autistic myself, but I have never been assessed and my childhood was so far from normal, I don't know if my lack of body language is a result of that instead.
