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You need to learn to read the room (and individual people)
Yeah, that's something I'm just not capable of. I tried for years but it always left me perplexed. Humans are strange, ambiguous creatures, and I don't have whatever it is that let's them decode each other's hidden meanings. People have always expected me to just magically know without being told.
I don't get it. I never have. When my imagination is all that's left to fill in the blanks, it comes up with some pretty grotesque distortions. I no longer place any credence in anything I don't know for fact. I'm too old to lose my sanity again trying to figure out whatever the fuck "read between the lines" even means...