i literally recieved my autism diagnosis an hour ago, and yeah there are times where i handle social situations better than those around me.

i wouldn’t say it’s because i hyperfocus on it though, more that i just keep things straight-forward and have fewer hangups. I’d maybe compare it to how people interact with dogs, yeah they and i don’t do small talk, but if you look sad we’ll just go “are you sad? can i help you be less sad?”, and people appreciate that.

I also remain cool as a cucumber so long as i know what to do, so situations that would freak a lot of people out are trivially easy for me, at the cost of the reverse also being true.