How can you tell when someone isn't being genuine? I've had this struggle my whole life and am really proud of my self when I notice someone acting nice and being fake. Can you relate? Do you have a method of distinguishing the difference?
How can you tell when someone isn't being genuine? I've had this struggle my whole life and am really proud of my self when I notice someone acting nice and being fake. Can you relate? Do you have a method of distinguishing the difference?
To be honest, the way aspergers syndrome affects me socially is weird - so maybe my experiences will be helpful to you, maybe they wont.
The way i see conversations and comments is similar to a staged performance - I don't care what anyone has to say to me, nor am i interested in how their day is or if they want to know how mine is, because the fact of the matter is, nobody is interested in that, whether they are "normal" or "different" (as we are so often distastefully labelled).
People are inherently vane (it is an undeniable/unavoidable human trait). So i wouldnt be concerned with whether something they say is genuine or not - just play along and act like what they have to say is interesting, and nudge the conversation in their direction so that they talk about themself (this will work on anybody, it's the vanity thing) they will talk for ages and feel like they are having a nice conversation with a nice person, they will genuinely like you for it, and you wont even have to say much.
After that, do you really need to concern yourself with whther someone is being nice to you genuinely, when they are already forming a liking to you?
To be honest, the way aspergers syndrome affects me socially is weird - so maybe my experiences will be helpful to you, maybe they wont.
The way i see conversations and comments is similar to a staged performance - I don't care what anyone has to say to me, nor am i interested in how their day is or if they want to know how mine is, because the fact of the matter is, nobody is interested in that, whether they are "normal" or "different" (as we are so often distastefully labelled).
People are inherently vane (it is an undeniable/unavoidable human trait). So i wouldnt be concerned with whether something they say is genuine or not - just play along and act like what they have to say is interesting, and nudge the conversation in their direction so that they talk about themself (this will work on anybody, it's the vanity thing) they will talk for ages and feel like they are having a nice conversation with a nice person, they will genuinely like you for it, and you wont even have to say much.
After that, do you really need to concern yourself with whther someone is being nice to you genuinely, when they are already forming a liking to you?