Autism

I'm morbidly obsessed with this, it's a psychology thing! We trigger the uncanny valley effect in them!

So most of how NT humans interact is using signifiers and symbolic behaviors and interpreting them based on patterns they naturally learn at formative ages. Patterns that we don't unless we're specifically forced to. It's never what we say, it's how we say it.

So when we try to learn those signals it's actually worse because the closer we're coming to replicating the correct "vibe" or whatever, the more manipulative we seem if we still somehow don't get it right. They think we're trying to be cunning.

But if you don't use those signals, then you still look human but you're triggering the ancient lizard brain instincts that say "This individual is ill. That is dangerous. Avert. Kill." which has to be dealt with by a modern human who is mostly not allowed to just kill mentally different humans. So they're frustrated. Brain says kill, run, avoid. Society says better not unless you can justify it. Gotta resolve that contention.