As a female with Asbergers, I would say this is true. It&#x27;s also true not in how I socialize but how I respond to socialization. I don&#x27;t immediately interpret what someone is saying and it&#x27;s very difficult for me to understand if their body language&#x2F;facial language nuances are being sarcastic or not.<p>Sometime&#x27;s people are trying to be nice but I&#x27;m worried they are being sarcastic and I&#x27;m not interpreting correctly. The reason I&#x27;ve LEARNED to worry about that is because sometimes I thought people were being nice but they were being sarcastic to me and making fun of me to me or in front of their friends.<p>Sometimes, hours later, I&#x27;ll have to reobserve the interaction in my head, view it from all possible angles, cross check it against how this person typically is&#x2F;how much I genuinely think they like me or not, and then I can feel pretty confident in about the message I think they were really sending across. But if I don&#x27;t have alot of previous experiences with this person to cross check, it&#x27;s like having an incomplete algorithm to make a decision on.<p>Yes, this is an arduous process and it&#x27;s why alot of people tend to say I keep them at a distance for a while before I get to know them, I need to stay safe and then gradually as I learn more about them open up to them because I can interpret how they are reacting to me correctly.<p>When it comes to having mutual crushes. It&#x27;s turning out to be a nightmare trying to navigate weather a guy is genuinely into me and even if I&#x27;m willing to believe he is how to engage with that, when other girls are masterminds of cutsey mindgames and being flirtacious.<p>The guy I think is into me right now I think has become frustrated because I&#x27;m not flirting back with him, but he knows I like being around him, so it&#x27;s confusing for him and I think hes getting frustrated thinking I&#x27;m playing mind games. I need to go talk to him before he goes away entirely but what to say? Gosh I don&#x27;t know, been debating that for weeks now...<p>In summary, can not only be exhausting it can be emotionally painful and hurtful when the people on the other side facing you don&#x27;t really understand what it&#x27;s like in your head. They tend to jump to alot of conclusions that are not even close to the innocent confusion I experience and genuine effort I&#x27;m putting in to get to know them.